Michael Espinosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 137125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Espinosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Espinosa |
| SIGNATURE | ESPINOSA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6509-0383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Health and medicine in twentieth-century Latin America: Historical perspectives on the Cold War
Scholars of Latin America are familiar with the narrative of the Cold War in the region. The stories we tell about the second half of the twentieth century often rely on narrative scaffolding provided by the Cold War; after all, the global influence of the ideological, political, economic, and military battles between the United States and Soviet Union permeated all aspects of people's lives to various degrees. In these stories, the Latin America…
The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Historians of Cuba have been prolific in documenting changes in the late nineteenth century and in the years around the 1959 Cuban Revolution, with the early republic—the years following the US occupation of 1898–1902—relegated, with a few exceptions, to a footnote of intellectual stagnation. But in The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, Daniel A. Rodríguez shows how during this time Cuba was in fact at the fore…
Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health
This essay considers what thirty years of scholarship on the history of epidemics in Latin America and the larger hemisphere can bring to a current reading of Charles Rosenberg's influential 1989 essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." It advocates that taking a broader geographical view is valuable to understanding better the arc of an epidemic in society. In addition, it proposes that, to see the ways in which the United S…
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán (review)
Reviewed by: Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán Mariola Espinosa Nicole Trujillo-Pagán. Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico. Studies in Critical Social Sciences vol. 58. Leiden: Brill, 2013. viii + 250 pp. Ill. $141.00 (978-90-04-24370-5). The advent of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico in 1898 brought with it profound changes in the island’s gov…
Los orígenes caribeños del Sistema Nacional de Salud Pública en los Eeuu: Una aproximación global a la historia de la medicina y de la salud pública en Latinoamérica
Este artículo define la historia global en relación con historia de la medicina y la salud pública. Defiende que una aproximación global a la historia abre un espacio para reverberaciones transmitidas desde la periferia geográfica hacia regiones occidentales, las cuales, tradicionalmente, han dominado la historiografía moderna. Analiza dos intervenciones médicas, en el Caribe, a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, y señala que estos suceso…
The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography
The belief that West and Central Africans and their descendants in the New World enjoy an innate immunity or resistance to yellow fever persists in the writings of many historians. They offer three arguments that such a racial immunity actually exists: first, that a consensus on the matter prevailed among historical observers of the disease; second, that patterns of lethality during yellow fever epidemics demonstrate it to be true; and third, bec…
SHERRY JOHNSON. Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
As anyone who has lived in the Caribbean will attest, hurricanes have calamitous effects on the region. An approaching hurricane instills fear. Once the winds subside, residents survey the damage—entire neighborhoods may be destroyed, crops devastated—and call for their governments to act. How authorities and others have responded has shaped and reshaped the region. But as Stuart Schwartz observed, because any and every event in the region's past…
Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America
The history of Latin America, the history of disease, medicine, and public health, and global history are deeply intertwined, but the intersection of these three fields has not yet attracted sustained attention from historians. Recent developments in the historiography of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America suggest, however, that a distinctive, global approach to the topic is beginning to emerge. This essay identifies the distin…
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (review)
Reviewed by: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History Mariola Espinosa Molly Caldwell Crosby. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York: Berkley Books, 2006. viii + 308 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-425-21202-5). The untold story of yellow fever? Molly Caldwell Crosby, a journalist, is a gifted writer: her prose is vivid and captivating. Unfortunat…
Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again
The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth‐Century Cuba by Lillian Guerra
The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898
Mariola Espinosa, The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 2006), pp. 541-568
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
Prediction of Low and Normal School Achievement in Early Adolescents Born Preterm
The study examined low school achievement in a group of early adolescents born preterm, who had participated in a prospective longitudinal study from birth through 12 years of age. Multivariate analyses were used to compare adolescents with low school achievement, of normal-or-above intelligence, to adolescents with no achievement problems. Significant group differences were found in a number of domains in early adolescence, including verbal comp…
Playground behaviors of school-age children in relation to nutrition, schooling, and family characteristics
Food intake measured over the course of a year, duration of schooling, and family socioeconomic status (SES) were related to playground behaviors in a sample of 111 Kenyan school-age children. Better nourished children were more active, happy, and showed more leadership behavior, whereas poorly nourished children appeared more anxious on the school playground. Children who had attended less school were more solitary and inactive than children wit…
Parental Knowledge of Children's Behavioral Capabilities: A Study of Low Income Parents
This study compares the parental knowledge of the behavioral capabilities of young children in a sample of low-income Hispanic, black, and Anglo parents. A modified.version of the Child Development Questionnaire (CDQ) is used to elicit parental notions regarding knowledge of developmental milestones. Results of analysis of variance between the various groups indicates that foreign-born Hispanics perceive young children's behavioral capabilities a…
Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America
The history of Latin America, the history of disease, medicine, and public health, and global history are deeply intertwined, but the intersection of these three fields has not yet attracted sustained attention from historians. Recent developments in the historiography of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America suggest, however, that a distinctive, global approach to the topic is beginning to emerge. This essay identifies the distin…
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography
The belief that West and Central Africans and their descendants in the New World enjoy an innate immunity or resistance to yellow fever persists in the writings of many historians. They offer three arguments that such a racial immunity actually exists: first, that a consensus on the matter prevailed among historical observers of the disease; second, that patterns of lethality during yellow fever epidemics demonstrate it to be true; and third, bec…
The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898
Mariola Espinosa, The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 2006), pp. 541-568
Los orígenes caribeños del Sistema Nacional de Salud Pública en los Eeuu: Una aproximación global a la historia de la medicina y de la salud pública en Latinoamérica
Este artículo define la historia global en relación con historia de la medicina y la salud pública. Defiende que una aproximación global a la historia abre un espacio para reverberaciones transmitidas desde la periferia geográfica hacia regiones occidentales, las cuales, tradicionalmente, han dominado la historiografía moderna. Analiza dos intervenciones médicas, en el Caribe, a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, y señala que estos suceso…
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
Playground behaviors of school-age children in relation to nutrition, schooling, and family characteristics
Food intake measured over the course of a year, duration of schooling, and family socioeconomic status (SES) were related to playground behaviors in a sample of 111 Kenyan school-age children. Better nourished children were more active, happy, and showed more leadership behavior, whereas poorly nourished children appeared more anxious on the school playground. Children who had attended less school were more solitary and inactive than children wit…
Parental Knowledge of Children's Behavioral Capabilities: A Study of Low Income Parents
This study compares the parental knowledge of the behavioral capabilities of young children in a sample of low-income Hispanic, black, and Anglo parents. A modified.version of the Child Development Questionnaire (CDQ) is used to elicit parental notions regarding knowledge of developmental milestones. Results of analysis of variance between the various groups indicates that foreign-born Hispanics perceive young children's behavioral capabilities a…
Parental Knowledge of Children's Behavioral Capabilities: A Study of Low Income Parents
This study compares the parental knowledge of the behavioral capabilities of young children in a sample of low-income Hispanic, black, and Anglo parents. A modified.version of the Child Development Questionnaire (CDQ) is used to elicit parental notions regarding knowledge of developmental milestones. Results of analysis of variance between the various groups indicates that foreign-born Hispanics perceive young children's behavioral capabilities a…
Playground behaviors of school-age children in relation to nutrition, schooling, and family characteristics
Food intake measured over the course of a year, duration of schooling, and family socioeconomic status (SES) were related to playground behaviors in a sample of 111 Kenyan school-age children. Better nourished children were more active, happy, and showed more leadership behavior, whereas poorly nourished children appeared more anxious on the school playground. Children who had attended less school were more solitary and inactive than children wit…
Prediction of Low and Normal School Achievement in Early Adolescents Born Preterm
The study examined low school achievement in a group of early adolescents born preterm, who had participated in a prospective longitudinal study from birth through 12 years of age. Multivariate analyses were used to compare adolescents with low school achievement, of normal-or-above intelligence, to adolescents with no achievement problems. Significant group differences were found in a number of domains in early adolescence, including verbal comp…
Maternal psychopathology and attachment in toddlers of heavy cocaine‐using mothers
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among maternal psychopathology, early sensitive caregiving, and security of attachment in a sample of cocaine‐using women from environments with high contextual risks that include poverty, low educational attainment, minority status, and single parenthood. Thirty‐five women and their offspring participated in the study. Maternal psychopathology, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, was …
Infant-Caregiver Interaction in Kenya and the United States: The Importance of Multiple Caregivers and Adequate Comparison Samples
This study explores infant-caregiver interaction in two cultures, replicating and expanding on previous cross-cultural comparisons. For this study, 132 Kenyan infants, 112 preterm U.S. infants, and 27 full-term U.S. infants were observed with their caregivers during multiple home observations. Results expand on previous work in Kenya, illustrating the importance of multiple caregivers in the lives of infants. When all care- givers are taken into …
The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898
Mariola Espinosa, The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 2006), pp. 541-568
Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again
The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth‐Century Cuba by Lillian Guerra
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (review)
Reviewed by: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History Mariola Espinosa Molly Caldwell Crosby. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York: Berkley Books, 2006. viii + 308 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-425-21202-5). The untold story of yellow fever? Molly Caldwell Crosby, a journalist, is a gifted writer: her prose is vivid and captivating. Unfortunat…
SHERRY JOHNSON. Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
As anyone who has lived in the Caribbean will attest, hurricanes have calamitous effects on the region. An approaching hurricane instills fear. Once the winds subside, residents survey the damage—entire neighborhoods may be destroyed, crops devastated—and call for their governments to act. How authorities and others have responded has shaped and reshaped the region. But as Stuart Schwartz observed, because any and every event in the region's past…
Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America
The history of Latin America, the history of disease, medicine, and public health, and global history are deeply intertwined, but the intersection of these three fields has not yet attracted sustained attention from historians. Recent developments in the historiography of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America suggest, however, that a distinctive, global approach to the topic is beginning to emerge. This essay identifies the distin…
The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography
The belief that West and Central Africans and their descendants in the New World enjoy an innate immunity or resistance to yellow fever persists in the writings of many historians. They offer three arguments that such a racial immunity actually exists: first, that a consensus on the matter prevailed among historical observers of the disease; second, that patterns of lethality during yellow fever epidemics demonstrate it to be true; and third, bec…
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán (review)
Reviewed by: Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán Mariola Espinosa Nicole Trujillo-Pagán. Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico. Studies in Critical Social Sciences vol. 58. Leiden: Brill, 2013. viii + 250 pp. Ill. $141.00 (978-90-04-24370-5). The advent of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico in 1898 brought with it profound changes in the island’s gov…
Los orígenes caribeños del Sistema Nacional de Salud Pública en los Eeuu: Una aproximación global a la historia de la medicina y de la salud pública en Latinoamérica
Este artículo define la historia global en relación con historia de la medicina y la salud pública. Defiende que una aproximación global a la historia abre un espacio para reverberaciones transmitidas desde la periferia geográfica hacia regiones occidentales, las cuales, tradicionalmente, han dominado la historiografía moderna. Analiza dos intervenciones médicas, en el Caribe, a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, y señala que estos suceso…
Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health
This essay considers what thirty years of scholarship on the history of epidemics in Latin America and the larger hemisphere can bring to a current reading of Charles Rosenberg's influential 1989 essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." It advocates that taking a broader geographical view is valuable to understanding better the arc of an epidemic in society. In addition, it proposes that, to see the ways in which the United S…
The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Historians of Cuba have been prolific in documenting changes in the late nineteenth century and in the years around the 1959 Cuban Revolution, with the early republic—the years following the US occupation of 1898–1902—relegated, with a few exceptions, to a footnote of intellectual stagnation. But in The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, Daniel A. Rodríguez shows how during this time Cuba was in fact at the fore…
Health and medicine in twentieth-century Latin America: Historical perspectives on the Cold War
Scholars of Latin America are familiar with the narrative of the Cold War in the region. The stories we tell about the second half of the twentieth century often rely on narrative scaffolding provided by the Cold War; after all, the global influence of the ideological, political, economic, and military battles between the United States and Soviet Union permeated all aspects of people's lives to various degrees. In these stories, the Latin America…
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