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Warfare , Health , Internationality , History of Medicine , History, 20th Century , Latin AmericaABSTRACT
Este artículo define la historia global en relación con historia de la medicina y la salud pública. Defiende que una aproximación global a la historia abre un espacio para reverberaciones transmitidas desde la periferia geográfica hacia regiones occidentales, las cuales, tradicionalmente, han dominado la historiografía moderna. Analiza dos intervenciones médicas, en el Caribe, a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, y señala que estos sucesos tuvieron profundas consecuencias en los EEUU. Los logros alcanzados en el Caribe, en lo relativo al control de la fiebre amarilla y del anquilostoma, además de servir de modelo para campañas sanitarias en el sur de los EEUU, impulsaron la centralización de la salud pública norteamericana bajo el control centralizador del gobierno federal.
This article defines global history in relation to the history of medicine and public health. It argues that a global approach to history opens up a space for examining the reverberations transmitted from the geographic periphery towards western regions, which have traditionally dominated modern historiography. It analyzes two medical interventions in the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, showing how these events had profound consequences in the USA. The successes achieved in the Caribbean in terms of yellow fever and ancylostoma control, as well as providing a model for health campaigns in the southern USA, inspired the centralization of public health in North America under the centralizing control of the federal government.
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Humans , Male , Female , Frozen Sections , Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Neoplasms/pathology , Referral and Consultation , Telepathology/instrumentation , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Equipment Design , Frozen Sections/economics , Health Care Costs , Neoplasms/economics , Predictive Value of Tests , Prognosis , Reproducibility of Results , Retrospective Studies , Referral and Consultation/economics , Time and Motion Studies , Time Factors , Telepathology/economics , WorkflowABSTRACT
Is an important book because it places the new history of public health at the center of politics and international relations. Espinosa demonstrates that the story of Cuba-U.S. relations during theses fifty tumultuous years, crucial ones for understanding all that followed, can be told as the history of polical and social responses to an epidemic disease. Nicely juxtaposing U.S. and Cuba perspectives, and using large helpings of fresh archival sources, Epidemic Invasions is the first comprhensive account of the United States peculiarly medical occupations of-and preoccupations with-Cuba. A lucid and concise work, it will appeal to all readers.