{"id":2982,"date":"2015-03-23T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:12:44","slug":"medicine-and-public-health-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/medicine-and-public-health-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine and Public Health in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 2015<\/p>\n

\"LaVacuna_CAPA_LIVRO\"<\/a>Medicine<\/a> and Public Health in Latin America: A History<\/a>, <\/i>written by <\/i>Marcos Cueto, scientific editor of HCSM, and Steven Palmer, of the University of Windsor (Canada), was recently published by Cambridge University Press. \u00a0The work is the result of several years of research in archives and libraries of Latin America and the United States.<\/p>\n

The book summarizes the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America. It\u00a0begins with the contact between indigenous African American and European medicine in what was the colonial era for most countries, from the early sixteen to the early nineteen centuries.<\/p>\n

Cueto\u00a0and Palmer also follow the Latin American medical changes\u00a0\u00a0in the first half of the twentieth century, which were part of an interaction process with the work of international agencies such as the Rockfeller Foundation. \u00a0The authors, then, present the region in the context of Cold War, when health programs were implemented with the expectation of controlling and eventually eradicating diseases.<\/p>\n

Finally, it deals with the neoliberal agenda that dictated the rules in the 80s with a highly restrictive idea of health in terms of cost- effectiveness.<\/p>\n

According to one of the blurbs of the back cover of the book:<\/p>\n

_\u201cWith a strong narrative, remarkable insights and a thorough examination of some of the most recent findings, research questions, and methodologies,\u00a0Cueto\u00a0and Palmer provide a lucid and novel historical reassessment of indigenous medicines, medical pluralism, national and international health agendas, disease eradication, rural health, medical innovations, and global health.\u201d \u2013 Historian Claudia Agostini<\/i>, M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n

\"PALMER-COUTO\"<\/a>See the articles written by Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer in HCSM:<\/p>\n

Cueto, Marcos,\u00a0El rastro del SIDA en el Per\u00fa<\/a><\/b><\/span>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, 2002, vol.9, p.17-40. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n

Cueto,\u00a0Marcos.\u00a0Im\u00e1genes de la salud, la enfermedad y el desarrollo<\/b>:\u00a0fotograf\u00edas de la Fundaci\u00f3n Rockefeller en Latinoam\u00e9rica<\/b><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Feb 1999, vol.5, no.3, p.679-704. ISSN 0104-5970<\/div>\n
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Palmer, Steven, Hochman, Gilberto and Arbex, Danieli\u00a0Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism:travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil<\/b>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.777-790. ISSN 0104-5970<\/div>\n

Palmer, Steven.\u00a0“O Dem\u00f4nio que se transformou em vermes”:\u00a0a tradu\u00e7\u00e3o da sa\u00fade p\u00fablica no Caribe Brit\u00e2nico, 1914-1920<\/b>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3, p.571-589. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n

See also the latest issue of HCSM: Bioethics and global health in the Americas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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