Gênese da saúde global: a Fundação Rockefeller no Caribe e na América Latina / Genesis of global health: the Rockefeller Foundation in the Caribbean and Latin America

O nascimento da chamada Saúde Global e as relações criadas entre agentes globais e locais de saúde pública em regiões como a América Latina e o Caribe são abordados de forma totalmente inovadora. O autor, pesquisador pioneiro no estudo da América Latina como laboratório médico, partiu dos arquivos médicos nacionais da Costa Rica para investigar como foi a atuação da Fundação Rockefeller, organização de saúde internacional, em pequenos países da América Central e no Caribe, no início do século XX. A edição do livro em português tem novidades como informações sobre a atuação da Fundação Rockefeller no Brasil e um novo capítulo sobre o tratamento com óleo de quenopódio, o que causou muitas mortes, principalmente entre crianças, e as questões éticas decorrentes dessa decisão...

Launching global health: the Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation / Conversations in medicine and society

First book to explore the inaugural Rockefeller Foundation campaigns in depth and to treat them as an ensemble—as a laboratory for discovering and testing the elements of a global health system for the twentieth century. Orienting the study according to the priorities and perspectives of the social and cultural history of medicine and marrying the results with social science and institutional approaches, the author rediscovers elements and dynamics in the original history of global health that were either discarded or that have continued to operate beneath the radar of scholarship. In particular, the author examines the extraordinary encounters that took place between the Rockefeller proselytizers of biomedicine and public health and the diverse populations whom they were attempting to help. Launching Global Health devotes special attention to the health narratives and practices of laboring people of different ethnicities and how they clashed and blended with the stories and rituals being promoted by the Rockefeller Foundation, ultimately showing the locally assembled health teams of microscopists, inspectors, and dispensers to have been active agents in the shaping of encounters between imperial and popular medicine.

Cerejeiras e cafezais: relações médico-científicas entre Brasil e Japão e a saga de Hideyo Noguchi / Cherry trees and coffee fields: medical and scientific relations between Brazil and Japan and the saga of Hideyo Noguchi

História dos sanitaristas da FSP/USP destaque nas páginas, 220-229, 297-299, 397, entre outras....

Comienzos de una epidemiología de terreno en Colombia / The beginning of a field epidemiology in Colombia

Analiza un conjunto de discursos médicos cuyos comunes denominadores son haber sido elaborados a partir de prácticas de terreno y tratar todos el problema de la anquilostomiasis como patología colectiva. Subraya la emergencia en Colombia de una epidemiología descriptiva en empresas situadas en áreas rurales y en el mundo urbano.

The social factors affecting the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico and Hong Kong

This study seeks to understand the role played by social factors in the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico, in particular those affecting the work of Bailey K. Ashford between 1898-1934. Most studies of Ashford to date focus mainly on the intellectual framework per se, and rarely on the surrounding social environment. In order to achieve this aim, Ashford's experiences were contrasted to those of Patrick Manson in Hong Kong and China between 1866 and 1889. By undertaking this comparative approach, it became clear that social factors more significantly affected the advancement on their respective investigations than intellectual ones. Manson simply did not have the political and financial support needed to develop his work, hence greatly delaying the establishment of a research institute in Hong Kong, or China for that matter. By contrast, Ashford achieved a great deal of popular and congressional support, thereby enabling him to establish a research institution early in the century. Relevant social factors included: cultural differences, their history of colonial relations and the local economy.

Anquilostomiasis: un problema de nuestros días / Ancylostomiasis: an actual problem

Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica retrospectiva y prospectiva y se enfocó de manera real la problemática que ocasiona en el país las parasitosis intestinales, con especial referencia a la anquilostomiasis. Se estudiaron los factores que inciden y condicionan su vigencia, aspectos críticos que hacen que se mantenga la prevalencia como factor significativo, posibilidades de la aplicación del inmunodiagnóstico e inmunoprofilaxia (vacunación) los enfoques terapéuticos actuales y si es necesario incluir campañas de tratamiento profilactico dentro del Sistema Nacional de Salud