Luz Maria Hernández-Sáenz
Associate Professor
PhD, Arizona, 1993
Research Interests
Professor Hernández-Sáenz is a social historian who specializes in Mexico's medical profession and institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is presently working on the influence of French medicine in the organization of health care and sanitation in Mexico.
Publications
Learning to Heal. The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831. American University Series. New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 1997.
"Seamen, Surgeons and Empire: The Impact of Spanish Medical Naval Reform on New Spain in the Eighteenth Century," The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2000.
"Matters of Life and Death: The Hospital of San Pedro, 1790-1802," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Winter 2002, vol. 77.
Doctoral Level supervisory privileges
Also from this web page:
- Office: STH 2124
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9 - 10 am & 11:30 am - 12:30 pm or by appointment
- Telephone: 519 661-2111
Ext: 84978 - e-mail: lmhs@uwo.ca
Current Courses
- HIS 1701E-001 - Comparative History of Canada, the United States and Mexico
- HIS 2501E-001 - History of Latin America
- HIS - 3597F - Spain's Silver Empire: A Social History of Mines, Trade, and Cities in the Spanish American Colonies
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Courses Taught
- HIS 1701E-001 - Comparative History of Canada, the United States and Mexico
- HIS 2501E-001 - History of Latin America
- HIS 3596G - Cuban Revolution
