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<\/a>The 1952 Bolivian Revolution<\/p><\/div>\n
In April 1952, Bolivia experienced a social revolution that brought the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario<\/em>\u00a0 to power. Over a period of 12 years, until the MNR was ousted by a military coup in 1964, the party attempted to modernize Bolivia.<\/p>\n The article\u00a0Liberating the people from their \u201cloathsome practices:\u201d public health and \u201csilent racism\u201d in post-revolutionary Bolivia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0explores\u00a0the language\u00a0that doctors and public health workers used to describe Bolivia\u2019s indigenous population in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n Historian Nicole L.\u00a0Pacino,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Assistant Professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville argues that MNR used public health as a project of cultural assimilation, and that state-sponsored health programs sought to culturally “whiten” the indigenous population by transforming personal habits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This article was published in the\u00a0dossier\u00a0Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0Oct-Dec 2017<\/a>).<\/p>\n It shows that despite the regime\u2019s intention to move away from defining the rural population on racial terms, medical and political elites continued to define indigenous customs as an obstacle to progress and a remnant of an antiquated past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read in Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Dossier\u00a0Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>Oct-Dec 2017<\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n
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