Latin American Social Medicine publications
Scope and Contents
Consists of Latin American healthcare publications. The collection dates 1981-2013. These publications help document published work about social medicine and human rights in Latin America. The collection includes publications from Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina.
Dates
- Creation: 1981-2013
Conditions Governing Use
The collection is available for research and open to the public. Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Biographical / Historical
These publications were donated to HSLIC by Dr. Howard Waitzkin as part of the Latin American Social Medicine database. Consisting of two phases, the project ran from 2000-2009. HSLIC was involved with the first phase of the project, 2000-2004. The UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute was involved with the second phase of the project, which lasted from 2005-2009. The resulting database includes over 1100 abastracts of books, book chapters, and journal articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
[Source: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lasm/, accessed May 31, 2023]
Extent
5 linear inches
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
English
Arrangement
Collection is minimally processed.
Custodial History
Donated by Dr. Howard Waitzkin as part of the Latin American Social Medicine project.
- Title
- Guide to Latin American Social Medicine publications
- Author
- Abbie Weiser
- Date
- May 31, 2023
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Most of the publication titles and text are in Spanish. Diacritics were used when present in titles.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Repository
MSC 09 5100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 United States
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