Salud y Humanismo: Pre-Hispanic Medicine - Hardcover Book by Secretaria de Salud (2007) | Excellent Condition | Cultural Studies & Medical History Research

Secretaria de Salud, 2007. 

Spanish, First Edition, Near Fine, Hard Cover, Folio, 10 ¼,” x 12,” 214 pp.

ISBN: 9789686772708

Navy cloth over boards, silver gilt stamped titling to front and spine, green pastedowns and endpapers, in publisher’s green dust jacket with full-color image detail to front, white text to front and spine, image of sculpture to back. Minor dings to some pages, otherwise clean, tightly bound, sharp tips. In a Very Good+ dust jacket, mild edgewear,  shelfwear, surface scratches, ⅛” tear to top of spine, 214 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images throughout of indigenous art related to health, medicine, illness, etc. Includes texts by Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, Georg Braunleder, Carlos Viesca Trevino, et al. Essays describe the indigenous medicine practices of Mexico pre-colonization.