Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945 - Hardcoverby A. Kim Clark (Author) Winner, Best Book Prize, LASA Ecuadorian Studies Section The First English Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid Twentieth Century The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how the service