January 2017
The paper Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945 was published in the latest issue of Global Public Health, an International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice (vol 13, 2018).
The paper written by Eric Carter, Associate Professor of Geography and Global Health at the Macalester College, examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau.
After examining the architecture of these networks, this paper traces their influence on social and health policy in two policy domains: social security and nutrition. Recognition of difference between Latin America and the global economic core regions was a key impetus for seeking ‘national solutions to national problems’ in countries like Argentina and Chile.
Read more:
Global health has a history – “Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.
Magalhães, Rodrigo Cesar da Silva. Nova história da Fundação Rockefeller: a odisseia da saúde global revisitada. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2016, vol.23, no.4, p.1245-1248. ISSN 0104-5970
Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven. Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970
Palmer, Steven. O Demônio que se transformou em vermes”: a tradução da saúde pública no Caribe Britânico, 1914-1920. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3, p.571-589. ISSN 0104-5970
Ferreira, José Roberto et al. International cooperation in health: the case of Fiocruz. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2016, vol.23, no.2, p.267-276. ISSN 0104-5970
Fiocruz as an actor in Brazilian foreign relations in the context of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries: an untold story. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.153-169. ISSN 0104-5970
For more articles about south-south cooperation see the dossier Bioethics and global health in the Americas.
