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Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS Edited by Diego Armus (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003) (326 pages; $21.95 paper).

Although they are our neighbors and trade partners, Latin American countries and their public health problems do not come up often in our health discussions. Historical public health writings about Latin America are few and far between, and usually embrace the viewpoints and interventions of the United States governmental and philanthropic institutions. In Disease in the History of Modem Latin America, eleven essays cover a period from the late 19th century until the cholera crisis in 1991. They explain the sociocultural …