Biomedical knowledge in Mexico during the Cold War

April 2019

This edition of HCSM (vol.26 no.1 Jan./Mar. 2019) features a dossier on the transnational knowledge during the Cold War explaining the dynamics of global and local circulation of knowledge, people, and scientific practices.

One of its articles, Biomedical knowledge in Mexico during the Cold War and its impact in pictorial representations of Homo sapiens and racial hierarchies, provides an overview of the state of Mexican genetics during the second half of the twentieth century. Erica Torrens, Professor, School of Science Evolutionary Biology/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico addresses the genealogy and shifts of the concept of race of Mexican bodies.

Maize people (Fragment of mural by Diego Rivera in the Palacio National, Mexico City, 1929).

Related articles in Manguinhos:
Transnational knowledge during the Cold War – Our current issue is now available online. It features a dossier on science during the Cold War, a period that affected not only technology related to the military and space races, but also research in biomedicine and other fields.
Eugenesia y racismo en México – En el último número de Manguinhos, el investigador Leonardo Dallacqua de Carvalho analiza el libro.
Race and the Rockefeller Foundation – From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica. This paper explores the role that race played in it.
“Race is never silenced in scientific inquiry” – Interview with Tara Inniss discusses how racial categorizations continue to form a major part of epidemiological investigation in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
East German medical aid to Nicaragua, 1979 – 1989 – This cooperation followed the logic of the Cold War.
La viruela en México: la etapa posterior a la erradicación – En la primera mitad de 1951 ocurrieron en México la última epidemia y el último caso de viruela. Esta nota de investigación estudia la etapa posterior a la declaración de la erradicación de la enfermedad en el país.
La Campaña Nacional Contra el Cáncer en México – Ana María Carrillo (UNAM) estudia los primeros esfuerzos organizados en México para combatir al cáncer. HCSM vol. 17, jul. 2010.

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