This article offers a panoramic vision of the development of international health in Latin
America during the late 1940s and the 1950s, when a series of bilateral and multilateral …

I s T o R IAN s of Latin America have only recently begun to revise the longstanding image of
nineteenthcentury Latin American physicians who faithfully (and passively) reproduced …

ABSTRACT The history of Latin America, the history of disease, medicine, and public health,
and global history are deeply intertwined, but the intersection of these three fields has not …

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest in the history of tropical medicine, sparked
by a number of academic and political developments. Imperialism is back on the scholarly …

In the late nineteenth century, Mexico's Superior Health Council devised a consistent and
assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the …

As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the United States was at the
forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. Dreadful sanitary conditions were …

International organizations and the problem of child health, 1945-1960 Page 1 International
organizations and the problem of child health, 1945-1960 JAMES A. GILLESPIE (*) BIBLID [0211-9536 …

This Research Paper sets out to examine transitions within health care in Latin America
between c. 1870 and c. 1950 and offers a preliminary synthesis. Whereas a powerful …

This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin
America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of …

In this essay we look at a group of physicians whose approach to disease reflects something
of the evolution of tropical medicine in the Americas over the course of several important …