Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
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The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.
There’s a bittersweet history to chocolate in America. At one plantation museum in Virginia, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the elite’s culinary treat.
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Associate in History, Smith College
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Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program, Bowdoin College
