Race and the Rockefeller Foundation

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March 2018

From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers.

The article The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica (dossier Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Oct-Dec 2017) written by Henrice Altink (University of York) explores the role that race played in the tuberculosis commission.

Drawing upon diaries and scientific writings by the staff employed by the commission, among other sources, this paper assesses how race shaped the research conducted by the commission, how it informed staff interactions, and the clash of “imported” and local racial ideas in the commission’s work.

See more about tuberculosis in Manguinhos:

Álvarez, Adriana. La experiencia de ser un ‘niño débil y enfermo’ lejos de su hogar: el caso del Asilo Marítimo, Mar del Plata (1893-1920). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2010, vol.17, no.1, p.13-31. ISSN 0104-5970

Vianna, Paula V. Carnevale, Zanetti, Valéria and Papali, Maria Aparecida. Geografia, saúde e desenvolvimento urbano no interior paulista na passagem para o século XX: Domingos Jaguaribe e a construção da Estância Climática de Campos do Jordão. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2014, vol.21, no.4, p.1341-1360. ISSN 0104-5970

Herrero, Maria Belen and Carbonetti, Adrian. La mortalidad por tuberculosis en Argentina a lo largo del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2013, vol.20, no.2, p.521-536. ISSN 0104-5970

Ortega Martos, Antonio Miguel. ¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2010, vol.17, no.4, p.909-924. ISSN 0104-5970

Armus, Diego. Milonguitas” en Buenos Aires (1910-1940): tango, ascenso social y tuberculosis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9, p.187-207. ISSN 0104-5970

 

Carbonetti, Adrián Carlos Alfredo. La tuberculosis en la literatura argentina: tres ejemplos a través de la novela el cuento y la poesía. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Feb 2000, vol.6, no.3, p.479-492. ISSN 0104-5970

 

 

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