Diego Armus is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College.

“This book is an extraordinary contribution that brings together the very best scholars of Latin American public health and social history. Its emphasis on the social conditions that lead to epidemic disease as well as the political and social forces that shape practice is a welcome corrective to a literature still too often dominated by positivist traditions.”-David Rosner, director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University ”I was fascinated by all the essays in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. They are theoretically aware and sophisticated while they remain accessible and oriented to the complexity of historical experience. This collection is a powerful argument for the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history.”-Daniel James, author of DoÑa Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

• Preface viiDisease in the Historiography of Modern Latin America / Diego Armus 1“The Only Serious Terror in These Regions”: Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan 25An Imaginary Plague in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: Hysteria, Discipline, and Languages of the Body / Gabriella Nouzeilles 51Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The Case of Chagas’ Disease / Marilia Coutinho 76Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Diego Armus 101The State, Physicians. and Leprosy in Modern Colombia / Diana ObregÓn 130Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 158Between Risk and Confession: State and Popular Perspectives of Syphilis Infection in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss 183Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum 209Mental Illness and Democracy in Bolivia: The Manicomio Pacheco, 1935–1950 / Ann Zulawski 237Stigma and Blame during an Epidemic: Cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcus Cueto 268Nation, Science, and Sex: AIDS and the New Brazilian Sexuality / Patrick Larvie 290Contributors 315Index 317

Diego Armus is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College.

“This book is an extraordinary contribution that brings together the very best scholars of Latin American public health and social history. Its emphasis on the social conditions that lead to epidemic disease as well as the political and social forces that shape practice is a welcome corrective to a literature still too often dominated by positivist traditions.”-David Rosner, director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University ”I was fascinated by all the essays in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. They are theoretically aware and sophisticated while they remain accessible and oriented to the complexity of historical experience. This collection is a powerful argument for the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history.”-Daniel James, author of DoÑa Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

• Preface viiDisease in the Historiography of Modern Latin America / Diego Armus 1“The Only Serious Terror in These Regions”: Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan 25An Imaginary Plague in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: Hysteria, Discipline, and Languages of the Body / Gabriella Nouzeilles 51Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The Case of Chagas’ Disease / Marilia Coutinho 76Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Diego Armus 101The State, Physicians. and Leprosy in Modern Colombia / Diana ObregÓn 130Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 158Between Risk and Confession: State and Popular Perspectives of Syphilis Infection in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss 183Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum 209Mental Illness and Democracy in Bolivia: The Manicomio Pacheco, 1935–1950 / Ann Zulawski 237Stigma and Blame during an Epidemic: Cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcus Cueto 268Nation, Science, and Sex: AIDS and the New Brazilian Sexuality / Patrick Larvie 290Contributors 315Index 317

Diego Armus is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College.

“This book is an extraordinary contribution that brings together the very best scholars of Latin American public health and social history. Its emphasis on the social conditions that lead to epidemic disease as well as the political and social forces that shape practice is a welcome corrective to a literature still too often dominated by positivist traditions.”-David Rosner, director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University ”I was fascinated by all the essays in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. They are theoretically aware and sophisticated while they remain accessible and oriented to the complexity of historical experience. This collection is a powerful argument for the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history.”-Daniel James, author of DoÑa Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

• Preface viiDisease in the Historiography of Modern Latin America / Diego Armus 1“The Only Serious Terror in These Regions”: Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan 25An Imaginary Plague in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: Hysteria, Discipline, and Languages of the Body / Gabriella Nouzeilles 51Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The Case of Chagas’ Disease / Marilia Coutinho 76Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Diego Armus 101The State, Physicians. and Leprosy in Modern Colombia / Diana ObregÓn 130Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 158Between Risk and Confession: State and Popular Perspectives of Syphilis Infection in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss 183Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum 209Mental Illness and Democracy in Bolivia: The Manicomio Pacheco, 1935–1950 / Ann Zulawski 237Stigma and Blame during an Epidemic: Cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcus Cueto 268Nation, Science, and Sex: AIDS and the New Brazilian Sexuality / Patrick Larvie 290Contributors 315Index 317