Isaac Campos
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835388
- eISBN:
- 9781469601809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882689_campos.10
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The 1920 law that prohibited marijuana in Mexico was titled “Dispositions on the Cultivation and Commerce of Substances That Degenerate the Race.” This chapter discusses how the concept of ...
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The 1920 law that prohibited marijuana in Mexico was titled “Dispositions on the Cultivation and Commerce of Substances That Degenerate the Race.” This chapter discusses how the concept of degeneration developed in Mexico and the ways in which it became the key concept behind the legislation. Several factors contributed to marijuana's reputation as a degenerating element in Mexican life and society. Chief among these was the plant's association with prisons and soldier barracks, Indian Mexico, indigenous drugs, and the herbolarias who sold them.Less
The 1920 law that prohibited marijuana in Mexico was titled “Dispositions on the Cultivation and Commerce of Substances That Degenerate the Race.” This chapter discusses how the concept of degeneration developed in Mexico and the ways in which it became the key concept behind the legislation. Several factors contributed to marijuana's reputation as a degenerating element in Mexican life and society. Chief among these was the plant's association with prisons and soldier barracks, Indian Mexico, indigenous drugs, and the herbolarias who sold them.
Paul Ramírez
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781503604339
- eISBN:
- 9781503605800
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503604339.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
A history of epidemics and disease prevention in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Mexico, Enlightened Immunity focuses on the multiethnic and multimedia production of medical knowledge in a ...
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A history of epidemics and disease prevention in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Mexico, Enlightened Immunity focuses on the multiethnic and multimedia production of medical knowledge in a time when the governance of healthy populations was central to the pursuits of absolutist monarchies. The book reconstructs the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico’s early experiments with childhood vaccines, tracing how the public health response to epidemic disease was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. It was not only educated urban elites—doctors and men of science—whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and Indian tributaries who decided if they would hand their children to vaccinators. By following the public response to anticontagion measures and smallpox vaccine in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity sheds light on fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a period of medical discovery, innovation, and modernization.Less
A history of epidemics and disease prevention in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Mexico, Enlightened Immunity focuses on the multiethnic and multimedia production of medical knowledge in a time when the governance of healthy populations was central to the pursuits of absolutist monarchies. The book reconstructs the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico’s early experiments with childhood vaccines, tracing how the public health response to epidemic disease was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. It was not only educated urban elites—doctors and men of science—whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and Indian tributaries who decided if they would hand their children to vaccinators. By following the public response to anticontagion measures and smallpox vaccine in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity sheds light on fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a period of medical discovery, innovation, and modernization.
