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Abstract According to David Fidler, the governance of infectious diseases evolved from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century as a series of institutional arrangements: the International Sanitary Regulations (non-interference and disease control at borders), the World Health Organization vertical programs (malaria and smallpox eradication campaigns), and a post-Westphalian regime standing beyond state-centrism and national interest. But can international public health be reduced to such a Westphalian image? We scrutinize three strategies that brought health borders into prominence: pre-empting weak states (eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century); preventing the spread of disease through nation-building (Macedonian public health system in the 1920s); and debordering the fight against epidemics (1920-1921 Russian-Polish war and the Warsaw 1922 Sanitary Conference).
Resumo Segundo David Fidler, a gestão de doenças infecciosas entre meados do século XIX e e o XXI guiou-se por uma série de acordos institucionais: Regulamento Sanitário Internacional (não interferência e controle de doenças em fronteiras), programas verticais da OMS (campanhas de erradicação da malária e varíola), e posicionamento pós-vestefaliano além do estado-centrismo e interesse nacional. Mas pode a saúde pública internacional ser reduzida à tal imagem vestefaliana? Examinamos três estratégias que destacaram as fronteiras sanitárias: prevenção em estados vulneráveis (Mediterrâneo oriental, século XIX); prevenção à disseminação de doenças via construção nacional (sistema público de saúde macedônico, anos 1920); remoção de fronteiras no combate às epidemias (guerra polaco-soviética, 1920-1921 e Conferência Sanitária de Varsóvia, 1922).
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History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Public Health Practice/history , Communicable Disease Control/history , Politics , Asia , World Health Organization/history , Quarantine/history , Communicable Disease Control/methods , Global Health/history , Europe , Hospitals, Isolation/history , Malaria/history , Malaria/prevention & controlABSTRACT
El presente artículo indaga la aparición de dos instituciones de control de la higiene pública en Chile entre los años 1879 y 1920: los protomedicatos y lazaretos. El objeto de estudio utiliza como caso la presencia de la viruela en La Araucanía. Se abordan las características y contexto que adquirió la instalación de estos dispositivos que permitieron al Estado de Chile operacionalizar el asunto de la higiene pública, lo que interpeló a los profesionales de la salud para avanzar a mayores niveles de perfeccionamiento del ejercicio profesional de la medicina. El Estado liberal positivista de fines de siglo XIX comprendió que el tema de la higiene no era solamente una cuestión de responsabilidad individual, sino que tenía una dimensión social, pública y medio ambiental. No sólo había personas que eran higiénicas, sino también ambientes higiénicos y antihigiénicos. Por tanto, se estudia la higiene, el tribunal del protomedicato, la hoja sanitaria, lazaretos, médicos y vacunadores; quienes estuvieron en permanente tensión con las autoridades del gobierno central debido a los insuficientes recursos proporcionados por el Estado para la atención de los enfermos contagiados con viruela. El estudio se orienta desde una metodología cualitativa con un diseño historiográfico con alcances descriptivos densos. Se han utilizado fuentes primarias y secundarias disponibles en archivos en Chile y Alemania. Los resultados evidencian que la presencia de viruela apareció violentamente en el centro sur de Chile en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y permaneció en la Araucanía hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX. La violencia con que se desarrolló la viruela generó miedo e incertidumbre afectando a personas de diferentes clases sociales, y tuvo como una de sus causas principales las precarias condiciones de salubridad de la población.
This article investigates the emergence of two institutions for the control of public hygiene in Chile between 1879 and 1920: colleges of royal physicians and isolation hospitals using the case of smallpox in La Araucanía, a region located in the South of Chile. We cover the characteristics and context of these institutions that allowed the State of Chile to address the problems of public hygiene and to prompt health professionals to professionalize the practice of medicine. The liberal positivist state of the late nineteenth century understood that the issue of hygiene was not only a matter of individual responsibility but had a social, public, and environmental dimension. People practiced hygiene alongside the existence of hygienic and anti-hygienic environments. Therefore, hygiene, the royal colleges of physicians, health records, isolation hospitals, doctors, and vaccinators are studied. All of these components of the health care system of the time were in permanent tension with the central government authorities due to the insufficient resources provided by the state for the care of infected patients with smallpox. The study follows a qualitative methodology with a descriptive historiographic design. We used archival primary and secondary sources available in Chile and Germany. The results show that the presence of smallpox appeared ferociously in South-Central Chile in the second half of the 19th century and remained in La Araucanía until the first half of the 20th century. The extent to which smallpox spread, spawning fear and insecurity in people of different social classes, had as one of its leading causes the precarious conditions of health and hygiene of the population.
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Humans , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Smallpox/prevention & control , Smallpox/transmission , Smallpox/epidemiology , Hygiene/history , Chile/epidemiology , Delivery of Health Care , Hospitals, Isolation/historyABSTRACT
Resumen El autor presenta una reseña histórica sobre la creación del Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas Dr. Lucio Córdova. El Dr. Lucio Córdova, Consejero de la Honorable Junta de Beneficencia en 1938, impulsó la creación de un pabellón modelo para la hospitalización de enfermos con procesos transmisibles. Un brote de meningitis meningocóccica, entre 1941 y 1942 apresuró la construcción del Pabellón de Enfermedades Infecciosas, que estuvo terminado en 1949. Se destaca la importante labor del primer médico jefe del nuevo Servicio doctor Roque Kraljevic. En 1963, el Pabellón de Enfermedades Infecciosas se transformó en el Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas Dr. Lucio Córdova.
The author presents a historical review about the creation of Doctor Lucio Cordova Infectious Diseases Hospital. Lucio Cordova MD, Counselor of the Charity Board in 1938, promoted a model pavilion for the hospitalization of patients with communicable diseases. An outbreak of meningococcal meningitis, between 1941 and 1942, hurried the construction of the Infectious Disease Pavilion, which was finished in 1949. The important work of the first chief of the new unit, Roque Kraljevic MD, is highlighted. In 1963, the Infectious Disease Pavilion was transformed into Dr. Lucio Cordova Infectious Diseases Hospital.
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Humans , History, 20th Century , Communicable Diseases/history , Hospitals, Isolation/history , ChileABSTRACT
The record of the first cases of leprosy in Rio de Janeiro dates from the seventeenth century. The first local host of leprosy patients was created from 1741, and the first colonies hospitals were built in the early twentieth century, in order to avoid contagion of the population. The first structures dedicated to research also date from this time: the Leprosy International Institute, the Leprology Institute, and the Leprosy Laboratory of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, where the most prestigious leprologists of Rio de Janeiro worked. Currently, investigations are focused on the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; additionally, leprosy patients are treated at municipal health centers and state hospitals, and former colony hospitals only accept patients with severe disabilities.
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Humans , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Hospitals, Isolation/history , Hospitals/history , Leprosy/history , BrazilABSTRACT
The Infectious Diseases Hospital Francisco Javier Muñiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the oldest in Latin America. It is over 100 years old and has a history worthy of pride. It became known as "Hospital of the pests" and was preceded by the old House of Insulation, which served as a quarantine station during epidemics of cholera, yellow fever and smallpox. The new House of Insulation, built in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios ("Barracks Hospital"), was renamed in 1904 in memory of Francisco Javier Muñiz, a former military doctor, naturalist and paleontologist. Its technical name is "Porteño Care Centre and National Reference Regional Infectious-Contagious Disease". It receives numerous national and foreign undergraduate and postgraduate students in its Departments of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Diseases.
El Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas Francisco Javier Muñiz, de Buenos Aires, República Argentina, es el más antiguo de América Latina, con más de 100 años de existencia y una historia digna de orgullo; fue conocido como "Hospital de las pestes". Antecedido por la antigua Casa de Aislamiento, que sirvió de lazareto durante epidemias de cólera, fiebre amarilla y viruela. La nueva Casa de Aislamiento, construida en el barrio Parque Patricios ("Hospital de Barracas"), pasó a denominarse en 1904, Hospital Francisco Javier Muñiz, por quien fuera médico militar, naturalista y paleontólogo. Su nombre técnico es "Centro Asistencial Porteño de Referencia Nacional y Regional de Enfermedades Infecto-Contagiosas" y recibe a numerosos alumnos nacionales y extranjeros, en sus Cátedras de Enfermedades Infecciosas y de Tisio-neumología, para docencia de pre y post-grado.
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History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Communicable Diseases/history , Hospitals, Public/history , Physicians/history , Argentina , Education, Medical/history , Hospitals, Isolation/historyABSTRACT
Este trabalho descreve a história de antiga colônia para o isolamento compulsório de hansenianos (lepra), o Sanatório (hoje Casa de Saúde) Santa Fé, em Três Corações, Minas Gerais. São estudadas as origens da política sanitária da internação compulsória, assim como as raízes do preconceito e do estigma em relação à hanseníase. Descrevem-se os aspectos básicos da vida em uma colônia, ao tempo dessa política. As mudanças na destinação do estabelecimento são enfocadas, assim como as suas perspectivas futuras.
This paper approaches the evolution of a former colony for the mandatory isolation of leprosy patients, Santa Fé Sanatory (presently, Health Institute), in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, through its decades-long existence. The origins of compulsory internation are studied, as well as the roots of prejudice and stigma. The history of the sanatorium is presented. The basic aspects of life in a colony, at the time of this policy, are described. The changes in the institution's destination are focused, as well as its future perspectives.
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Humans , Leprosy/history , Hospitals, Isolation/history , Prejudice , History of Medicine , Health SurveillanceABSTRACT
O Hospital-Colónia Rovisco Pais foi inaugurado em Portugal na década de 1940, com vistas ao tratamento, estudo e profilaxia da lepra, de acordo com modelo de internamento compulsivo, cuja configuração remete ao conceito de instituição total proposto por Goffman. Trata-se de um importante projeto higienista do Estado Novo. O seu paradigma educativo combinava elementos inspirados na medicina social europeia e na ideologia do regime ditatorial paternalista português. O Hospital-Colónia será aqui ponderado como dispositivo disciplinar, desenvolvendo-se reflexão acerca do confronto entre o poder disciplinar e a experiência. A memória emerge como instrumento contingente para o acesso às práticas e aos significados intersticiais tecidos no quotidiano do Hospital-Colónia, buscando-se auscultar a experiência de seus ex-doentes como sujeitos políticos.
The Hospital-Colónia Rovisco Pais was inaugurated in Portugal in the 1940s for the treatment, study and prophylaxis of leprosy based on the compulsive internment model, whose configuration reflects the total institution concept proposed by Goffman. It concerns an important hygiene project of the Estado Novo. Its educative paradigm combined elements inspired in European social medicine and the ideology of the paternalistic Portuguese dictatorial regime. The Hospital Colony here will be thought of as a disciplinary dispositive, developing considerations regarding the confrontation between disciplinary power and experience. Memory emerges as a contingent instrument to access the practices and interstitial meanings woven into the Hospital Colony's daily life, seeking to find out about the experience of its former patients as political subjects.