Buildings, boundaries, and blood: medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930.

@article{Stern1999BuildingsBA,
  title={Buildings, boundaries, and blood: medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930.},
  author={Alexandra Minna Stern},
  journal={The Hispanic American historical review},
  year={1999},
  volume={79 1},
  pages={
          41-81
        }
}
  • A. Stern
  • Published 1999
  • Political Science
  • The Hispanic American historical review
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