March 2018
Frontpage of Casimiro Roure’s Consideraciones sobre la fiebre amarilla (1884) (Source: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine.)
The paper Not a polar island: yellow fever, Spanish medical research, and the struggle for scientific and political hegemony in late nineteenth century Cuba, by Francisco Javier Martínez (Universidade de Évora) is part of the dossier Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (HCSM vol 24 no 4 Oct-Dec 2017).
This paper explores questions related to yellow fever and the complex struggle for scientific hegemony between Spanish, Cuban, and US institutions and researchers.
It analyses the struggle for medical and sanitary hegemony, which revolved essentially around that disease.
The yellow fever in Manguinhos:
Tropical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries. Editor’s note of HCS-Manguinhos (vol.21, no.2, Apr./Jun. 2014) by Jaime Benchimol.
Alcalá Ferráez, Carlos. De miasmas a mosquitos: el pensamiento médico sobre la fiebre amarilla en Yucatán, 1890-1920. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2012, vol.19, no.1, p.71-87. ISSN 0104-5970
Mónica García, Claudia. Las ‘fiebres del Magdalena’:medicina y sociedad en la construcción de una noción médica colombiana, 1859-1886. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.63-89. ISSN 0104-5970
Caponi, Sandra. El veneno y el mosquito: aspectos epistemológicos de la etiología y la profilaxis de la fiebre amarilla. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Oct 2000, vol.7, no.2, p.251-282. ISSN 0104-5970
