Sanitation from Above: Yellow Fever and Foreign Intervention in Peru, 1919–1922
N recent years, the history of Latin American medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been renewed by an increasing number of works focusing on the interweaving of disease, politics, and society.' These studies are providing an understanding of modern demographic patterns, little-known aspects of the local culture, and the interactions of well-organized international public health campaigns with incipient national public health systems. This