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Puerto Rico health sciences journal
The Historical Antecedents of the UPR School of Tropical Medicine
2016 •
Silvia RAbionet
This article deals with the historical antecedents of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Tropical Medicine (STM) under the auspices of Columbia University. It presents a general view of the social, institutional and conceptual factors that were correlated with the establishment of the STM. The authors start by examining the historical continuities and discontinuities present during the imperial transitions between Spanish colonial and U.S. military medicine at the turn of the 20th century. The clarification of these changes is important for the proper understanding of the emergence of tropical medicine in Puerto Rico, marked by the identification of the biological determinant of the so called "peasants' anemia." The essay focuses on two institutional precursor events: the Puerto Rico Anemia Commissions (1904-1908) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1912-1914). Their nature and work paved the way for the establishment of the STM. The notions ...
Puerto Rico health sciences journal
The Educational Legacy of the UPR School of Tropical Medicine: Curricula, Faculty, Students (1926-1949)
2016 •
Silvia RAbionet
This essay discusses the educational evolution of the University of Puerto Rico-School of Tropical Medicine (UPR-STM) under the auspices of Columbia University. It takes a closer look to what was taught, who taught it and who were the students benefitting from the educational, learning and advanced research activities. It highlights some characteristics of the educational environment that aimed to harvest a well-trained group of scientists, academicians, and practitioners. It examines the characteristics of the faculty and graduates and their role in the teaching and dissemination of knowledge in tropical medicine and closely related fields. The curricula was characterized for its flexibility to accommodate the students' clinical and research interests. With the advent of the 1940s the School started offering public health professionals degrees in addition to the former research-based training. This brought tensions associated to professionalization, the diversification of purpo...
Medical History
Tropical medicine and bacteriology in Boston and Peru: Studies of Carrión's disease in the early twentieth century
1996 •
Marcos Cueto
Rethinking historical trajectories of Tropical Medicine in a global perspective, in: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, 16, 3 (2018): 79-88.
Philip J Havik
The Workshop on the History of Tropical Medicine (WHTM) organized under the auspices of the Centre for Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) took place at the Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon on 14th and 15th December 2017, forming part of the celebrations of the institute’s 115th anniversary. It brought together 27 scholars from Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa who presented 22 papers, distributed across six thematic sessions, preceded by a keynote address. The papers presented and discussed during the meeting, covered a wide range of issues, including epidemiology, health systems and services, disease control and eradication programmes, biomedical knowledge and research, military and civil medicine, veterinary medicine, colonial and post-colonial medicine, entomology, medical networks, and international and global health. The present paper provides an overview of workshop proceedings and summaries of the papers presented during the two- -day meeting, the first of its kind held at the IHMT.
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz from the age of empire to the post-gutenberg world: lingua franca and the culture of tropical medicine
2016 •
william hanes
The Oswaldo Cruz Institute, founded in 1900 as a public health initiative, represents the institutionalisation of empirical science in Brazil. In 1909 it launched a journal called Memórias doInstituto Oswaldo Cruz that now publishes only in English, but was multilingual when it began and continued to be so for much of its history, although the trajectories of the languages of publication differed greatly. If changes in language represent changes in network structure, these shifts in language policy reflect repositioning with regard to partnerships, colonialism/politics and the nature of the scientific community and the organisational development of the Institute. To better understand these changes, a diachronic analysis of the full corpus (1909-2013) of this journal was conducted. This corpus was analysed for foreign language frequency,origin and content as well as paratextual clues regarding Memórias’ editorial policy. Based on the results, distinct languagebased editorial periods ...
Public Health, Imperialism and Tropical Medicine in Latin America (Cuba, Brazil and Puerto Rico)
Patricia Palma
Review. José Amador. Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. (English Version) Originally published in Spanish in A Contracorriente, A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. Vol. 13, no1, Fall 2015, 415-421. http://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1486/2515
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Poisons, putrescence and the weather: A genealogy of the advent of Tropical Medicine
1996 •
Harish Naraindas
This paper attempts to problematise the founding of 'Tropical Medicine' in the late 19th century as a classificatory act by posing a question: why was the discipline founded when it was and not earlier? In the process, it offers an alternate genealogy of its advent by arguing for a mid-19th century episteme, in terms of fevers, the constitution of the body, and the weather-in originating fevers and in predisposing the body towards disease—both in the temperates and the tropics, as being crucial to an understanding of the discourse on the tropics.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Extract from correspondence on “the present state of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom”
1982 •
David FitzSimons
A. Barahona, ed. *Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine*
A Historiography of the Life Sciences and Medicine in Latin America in Global Perspective
2022 •
Kapil Raj, Ana Barahona
Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine
Knowledge and power: the asymmetry of interests of Colombian and Rockefeller doctors in the construction of the concept of "jungle yellow fever," 1907-19381
2008 •
Carolina Manosalva, Monica Tafur
This study examines the asymmetries among the different interests of officials and medical doctors who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation and their Colombian counterparts in the development and consolidation of the concept of "jungle yellow fever," as distinguished from the known urban form of yellow fever. We explore the research responses to a variety of disease outbreaks in Colombia in the context of the Rockefeller campaigns against yellow fever, from the time of Roberto Franco's initial description of "yellow fever of the forests" in 1907 until the consolidation of the concept of "jungle yellow fever" by Fred Soper in 1938.
