La raza entra por la boca: energy, diet, and eugenics in Colombia, 1890-1940

The results of the research conducted for this article are part of the project “Engineering the Social: The Relationship between the Natural and Social Sciences in the Construction of the Modern Body in Colombia, 1870-1940,” funded by the University of Rosario Research Fund (Fondo de Investigación de la Universidad del Rosario, FIUR DVG-101). Different versions of this article were presented at the faculty symposium of the University of Rosario School of Human Sciences, the Center for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Valencia’s López Piñero Institute for the History of Medicine and Science, the 54th International Congress of Americanists (Vienna, 2012), and the Latin American Studies Association’s 30th International Congress (San Francisco, 2012). I wish to give special thanks to Max S. Hering, Julio Arias, Monica Garcia, Emilio Quevedo, Franz Hensel, Oscar Saldarriaga, Rachel Laudan, Hayley Froysland, Carlos Cardona, Adriana Alzate, Gustavo Vallejo, Thomas Fischer, and the HAHR editors and anonymous readers for their thoughtful critiques and suggestions.

• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad del Rosario
• Repositorio: Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/25903
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2694318; https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/25903
• Palabra clave: Social engineering; Productive body energy
• License: Restringido (Acceso a grupos específicos)