Showing papers by "Marcos Cueto published in 2003"
TL;DR: The development of medical geography in Peru is studied emphasizing the role played by Ernesto Odriozola, an influential clinician from Lima trained in Paris.
Abstract: During the turn of the 20 t h century medical geography in Peru concentrated in the study of a native disease (bartonellosis, also known as CarriOn's disease and Verruga Peruana) and reinforced the relationship between the country's 'natural' regions (coast, highlands and Amazon) and different patterns of disease. Expert knowledge on these themes was portrayed as important not only for the practice of medicine but also for the development of the country. This knowledge was instrumental for an emergent local medical tradition and for legitimizing the authority, power and prestige of Lima's medical elite. The city was the capital of a country whose population was mainly Indian and rural, and lived in the highlands. This article studies the development of medical geography in Peru emphasizing the role played by Ernesto Odriozola, an influential clinician from Lima trained in Paris.
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05 Mar 2003
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TL;DR: This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which narrates the decay of the body, the stigma and the compulsive segregation, as well as the hope for a better life.
Abstract: This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon. In a vivid style, it narrates the decay of the body, the stigma and the compulsive segregation, as well as the hope for a better life. It is the perspective of a patient, something that is difficult to find when researching the history of health. The original publication was possible thanks to the German physician Maxime H. Kuczynski-Godard and thanks to the Institute of Social Medicine of the University of San Marcos that was directed by the professor of hygiene Carlos Enrique Paz-Soldan. We have used this publication for this transcription. Kuczynski-Godard was a German medical doctor that arrived in Peru in the mid 1930s and organized valuable activities in the Peruvian jungle as apart of an effort, which eventually failed, of the Peruvian State to colonize, or really to ''civilize'' the Amazon.
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