Debating Diseases in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Causes, Interests, and the Pasteurian Therapeutics
This article explores the medical conceptualization of the causes of diseases in nineteenth-century Colombia. It traces the history of some of the pathologies that were of major concern among nineteenth-century doctors: periodic fevers (yellow fever and malaria), continuous fevers (typhoid fever), a...
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- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/24608
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2015.0050
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24608
- Palabra clave:
- Colombia
Epidemiology
History
Human
Leprosy
Malaria
Medical geography
Microbiology
Typhoid fever
Yellow fever
Causality
Colombia
Geography
Medical
History
19th Century
Humans
Leprosy
Malaria
Microbiology
Typhoid Fever
Yellow Fever
Bacteriology
Colombia
Leprosy
Medical geography
Typhoid fever
Yellow fever
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| Summary: | This article explores the medical conceptualization of the causes of diseases in nineteenth-century Colombia. It traces the history of some of the pathologies that were of major concern among nineteenth-century doctors: periodic fevers (yellow fever and malaria), continuous fevers (typhoid fever), and leprosy (Greek elephantiasis). By comparing the transforming conceptualizations of these diseases, this article shows that their changing pattern, the idea of climatic determinism of diseases (neo-Hippocratism and medical geography), the weak standing of the medical community in Colombian society, as well as Pasteurian germ practices were all crucial in the uneven and varied reshaping of their understanding. © 2015, Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. |
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