Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In this article I focus on the nexus of urbanization, the environment and public health that was exposed by the 1912 bubonic plague epidemic in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I utilize the concept of "urban health penalty," developed by demographic historians of the industrial revolution in Europe, to accou...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 500 - 517 |
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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