Farren Yero
Biographic Data
| ID | 684070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farren Yero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farren |
| FAMILY NAME | Yero |
| SIGNATURE | YERO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Los Depósitos: Urban Children, Mexican Families, and the Making of America’s First Vaccine Bank
In 1804, when doctors in Mexico City first acquired access to a smallpox vaccine, they established an institute that they described as a vaccine “deposit.” What they meant was the bodies of orphaned and impoverished children who were used to incubate, reproduce, and harvest this commodity. Medical authorities envisioned children housed in the capital’s foundling home as the ideal subjects for this project—a belief informed by emerging ideas about…
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
In 1804, Cuban physician Tomás Romay tried and failed to create the first yellow fever vaccine. The article analyzes his experimental efforts, foregrounding the enslaved and enlisted subjects at the center of this early vaccine trial. Though a scientific failure, this brief experiment, the desires and logics embedded within it, and the measures deployed in its wake — in the form of European whitening campaigns — allow us to consider the political…
Nahua Responses to the Matlazahuatl or “Mystery” Plague of 1805
In 1805, the pueblo of Tultitlan fell victim to an ostensibly mysterious new plague. After a year of curative treatment, it spread across what is now Mexico State, prompting urban officials to authorize the use of smallpox vaccination—an intervention that elicited fierce debate steeped in tensions around Indigeneity, religion, and parental rights. Drawing on newspapers and other colonial records, the article examines how different Nahua families …
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940
Elizabeth O'Brien offers a compelling contribution to the expanding historical study of reproductive health in the Americas. Of central concern is the relationship between the developing science of surgery and the experience of obstetric violence among childbearing Mexicans over time. Rooted in contemporary struggles over reproductive health justice, O'Brien's study argues that modern pro-life claims about fetal personhood are intimately tied to …
Jim Downs, Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery and War Transformed Medicine
In Maladies of Empire, Jim Downs looks beyond John Snow’s London to rethink the violent structures of knowledge that created modern epidemiology. He does so by marshalling an array of sources across eight case studies. Though distinct to their populations, aetiologies, and environments, they have several things in common. Namely, most of them served as precedents for the US Sanitary Counsel’s response to a smallpox epidemic during the US Civil Wa…
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World , by Jessica Marie Johnson
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Book Review| February 01 2021 The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. By Breen, Benjamin. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Photograph. Illustration. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 279 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Farren Yero Farren Yero Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site …
Nora E. Jaffary. Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905
Abortion and reproductive health have not been absent from studies of medicine in Mexico. Yet Nora Jaffary’s ambitious project reframes this scholarship by examining the relationships between women and their communities. In doing so, it challenges traditional narratives of Mexican history through a careful study of the development of obstetrical practices from 1750-1905. First, the study sheds doubt on the idea that independence, and the liberal …
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
In 1804, Cuban physician Tomás Romay tried and failed to create the first yellow fever vaccine. The article analyzes his experimental efforts, foregrounding the enslaved and enlisted subjects at the center of this early vaccine trial. Though a scientific failure, this brief experiment, the desires and logics embedded within it, and the measures deployed in its wake — in the form of European whitening campaigns — allow us to consider the political…
Nora E. Jaffary. Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905
Abortion and reproductive health have not been absent from studies of medicine in Mexico. Yet Nora Jaffary’s ambitious project reframes this scholarship by examining the relationships between women and their communities. In doing so, it challenges traditional narratives of Mexican history through a careful study of the development of obstetrical practices from 1750-1905. First, the study sheds doubt on the idea that independence, and the liberal …
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Book Review| February 01 2021 The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. By Breen, Benjamin. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Photograph. Illustration. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 279 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Farren Yero Farren Yero Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site …
Jim Downs, Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery and War Transformed Medicine
In Maladies of Empire, Jim Downs looks beyond John Snow’s London to rethink the violent structures of knowledge that created modern epidemiology. He does so by marshalling an array of sources across eight case studies. Though distinct to their populations, aetiologies, and environments, they have several things in common. Namely, most of them served as precedents for the US Sanitary Counsel’s response to a smallpox epidemic during the US Civil Wa…
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World , by Jessica Marie Johnson
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
In 1804, Cuban physician Tomás Romay tried and failed to create the first yellow fever vaccine. The article analyzes his experimental efforts, foregrounding the enslaved and enlisted subjects at the center of this early vaccine trial. Though a scientific failure, this brief experiment, the desires and logics embedded within it, and the measures deployed in its wake — in the form of European whitening campaigns — allow us to consider the political…
Nahua Responses to the Matlazahuatl or “Mystery” Plague of 1805
In 1805, the pueblo of Tultitlan fell victim to an ostensibly mysterious new plague. After a year of curative treatment, it spread across what is now Mexico State, prompting urban officials to authorize the use of smallpox vaccination—an intervention that elicited fierce debate steeped in tensions around Indigeneity, religion, and parental rights. Drawing on newspapers and other colonial records, the article examines how different Nahua families …
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940
Elizabeth O'Brien offers a compelling contribution to the expanding historical study of reproductive health in the Americas. Of central concern is the relationship between the developing science of surgery and the experience of obstetric violence among childbearing Mexicans over time. Rooted in contemporary struggles over reproductive health justice, O'Brien's study argues that modern pro-life claims about fetal personhood are intimately tied to …
Los Depósitos: Urban Children, Mexican Families, and the Making of America’s First Vaccine Bank
In 1804, when doctors in Mexico City first acquired access to a smallpox vaccine, they established an institute that they described as a vaccine “deposit.” What they meant was the bodies of orphaned and impoverished children who were used to incubate, reproduce, and harvest this commodity. Medical authorities envisioned children housed in the capital’s foundling home as the ideal subjects for this project—a belief informed by emerging ideas about…
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