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"Compilation of informative and documented articles on rate and nature of AIDS-HIV infection among women in Latin America. Authors are physicians, health, and sociomedical professionals. In addition to covering Latin American women as a whole, book devotes individual chapters to: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Hispanic females in the US"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

Informative anthology of texts from two centuries of Mexican history and literature about or referring to marijuana, either as public menace, spiritual balm, or personal vice. Includes Mexican authors such as Guilermo Prieto, Federico Gamboa, Alfonso Reyes, José Agustín et al; foreign travelers like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs; physicians and criminologists like Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra and Carlos Romagnac, as well as excerpts from Mexican pharmacopeia. Includes chapter on marijuana --related slang and its etymology