Medicine and the Pacific: Circulation, Disconnection, and Cholera in Chile and Peru, 1880s
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https://doi.org/10.62120/mch.7.65Keywords:
Pacific Ocean, History of medicine, circulation, choleraAbstract
Utilizing an oceanic studies framework, this essay uses the cholera outbreak of the 1880s in Chile and Peru in order to think through and historicize circulation and disconnection. Reading from within the history of medicine and social history, the article shows how Chilean and Peruvian authorities thought about cholera, about specific parts of the population, and how to stop the spread.
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