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The anti-cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru / A liga Anticancerosa e a sensibilização pública ao controle do câncer na sociedade peruana
López, Raúl Necochea.
  • López, Raúl Necochea; University of North Carolina. Department of Social Medicine. Chapel Hill. US
Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos ; 27(supl.1): 49-69, Sept. 2020. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: biblio-1134092
ABSTRACT
Abstract Peru's first cancer control public outreach scheme started in the 1910s, but ground to a standstill as it attained official governmental recognition in 1926 as the Liga Anti-Cancerosa (LAC). This paper explains the developments leading to that earliest effort to enlist a coalition of State health agencies, physicians, and lay people in a campaign to publicize early signs of this disease, as well as the medical and political reasons for and implications of its decline. Besides highlighting the importance of professional initiatives shaping cancer activism, contextualizing the rise and fall of the LAC calls attention to the effects that hospitalization of cancer treatment had on aspects of cancer care that were not directly treatment-related, such as public outreach.
RESUMO
Resumo O primeiro programa peruano de sensibilização pública para controle do câncer iniciou na década de 1910, mas arrefeceu quando reconhecido pelo governo como Liga Anticancerosa (LAC), em 1926. Este artigo aborda os avanços que conduziram aos pioneiros esforços de recrutamento de agências governamentais de saúde, médicos e leigos na divulgação sobre os primeiros sinais da doença, assim como as motivações políticas e médicas e as implicações de seu declínio. Além de assinalar a importância de iniciativas profissionais no ativismo na temática do câncer, a contextualização da ascensão e declínio da LAC chama a atenção para os reflexos da hospitalização no tratamento do câncer sobre aspectos indiretamente relacionados ao tratamento, como os esforços de sensibilização pública.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Voluntary Health Agencies / Public Health Practice / Neoplasms Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Peru Language: English Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2020 Type: Article Affiliation country: United States Institution/Affiliation country: University of North Carolina/US

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Voluntary Health Agencies / Public Health Practice / Neoplasms Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Peru Language: English Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2020 Type: Article Affiliation country: United States Institution/Affiliation country: University of North Carolina/US