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PALMA, PATRICIA  y  RAGAS, JOSÉ. Sanitary Enclaves: Hygiene, Epidemics, and Health in Lima's Chinatown, 1880-1910. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2018, vol.45, n.1, pp.159-190. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v45n1.67555.

Lima's Chinatown, the oldest in Latin America, was affected by a series of conflicts and stereotypes determined by race and public health at the turn of the century. An alliance between doctors and political authorities transformed this quarter into a place that jeopardized both public health and the modernization project, although a significant group of Limeños -especially the lower classes of the city-, found in Chinese doctors and their treatments a viable and affordable medical alternative. The article examines the Chinatown as a sanitary enclave in order to provide a different view of the relation among authorities, immigrant doctors, and patients, based on sources such as songs, caricatures, and travelers' descriptions.

Palabras clave : (Author) Bubonic plague; Chinese medicine; Chinatown; Lima; migration; (Thesaurus) health policy; hygiene; traditional medicine.

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