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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Lydia Crafts Abstract In the 1940s, US and Guatemalan doctors working with the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) intentionally exposed at least 1,308 Guatemalan sex workers, prisoners, hospital patients, and soldiers to three sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—syphilis, gonorrhea...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 495–526.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of neighborhood health movements, the article explores how grassroots movements came to articulate a notion of a right to health that incorporated the right to shape the city and the right to democratic participation while under military rule. As frustration with a lack of sanitary infrastructure and poor-quality...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 February 2020
.... As a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1917, the nation's chief public health officer, general and doctor José María Rodríguez, successfully promoted his vision of a “sanitary dictatorship” that would operate according to strict authoritarian principles for the sake of efficiency. The epidemic thus...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 573–602.
Published: 01 November 2009
... engagement with the United States, which began in 1890 when the first Mexican delegation attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Through a persistent and creative diplomatic campaign, taking advantage of relationships cultivated through the APHA, Porfirio Díaz’s sanitary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
... was embedded in sociolegal conflicts about the policing of homes. Empowered by the new sanitary code and legal doctrines that justified it, public health agents transformed Rio's homes into laboratories where disinfections with sulfur killed the mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever and residents were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1992
.... A serious epidemic began in 1919, and ended in 1921 only with the intervention of the Rockefeller Foundation. The sanitary campaign directed by American physicians was applied with an unlimited confidence in the capacity of technological resources, little community awareness, and no regard for the education...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 August 2023
... impossible. Only during the third epidemic were Argentine doctors ready to accept that cholera was caused by a bacillus. Before that, the methods of combating cholera were multiple: establishing sanitary cordons at railroad stations, fumigating streets and houses, burning fruit groves, and removing pools...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 571–572.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... The prominence of Mexican sanitary science was grounded on at least two factors. First, the exposure of Mexican scientists to the latest European technologies of disinfection and sanitation placed them at the vanguard of the international movement for sanitary reform. Furthermore, personal, clientelistic ties...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 339–376.
Published: 01 August 1995
... difficulties arose from the practice of funding projects for a period agreed on with the national government and then withdrawing, leaving Colombian officials to maintain them. The focus then narrows to the campaigns against hookworm undertaken under IHB auspices in the 1920s and the sanitary units...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1944) 24 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1944
...Gustave A. Nuermberger Alphabetical List of Medical and Public Health Journals of Latin America . Compiled by de la Garza Jeannette M. . [ Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Publication No. 185 .] ( Washington, D. C. : Pan American Sanitary Bureau, July , 1942 . Pp. [ 3 ] 60 . Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 439–541.
Published: 01 August 1965
.... International Sanitary Conference. Protocol of Proceedings No. 7 , Washington, 1881. More serious was what happened in Havana at the Third Pan American Medical Congress (February 4-7, 1901), when the members of the American Army Board gave the delegates from the whole hemisphere the impression...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 577–579.
Published: 01 August 1969
... in the four villages; the sources and sanitary quality of their water supply; waste disposal and housing; nutrition and its influence on certain aspects of disease; and the health significance of coca chewing. The technical nature of the material discussed may restrict interest in the volume largely...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 766–767.
Published: 01 November 2003
... story of Dr. Manuel Núñez Butrón, who created sanitary brigades to fight smallpox and typhus in the southern Andean department of Puno. By linking public health to respect for native culture and the struggle of Andean communities to retain their lands, Indian sanitary workers were able to educate many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 May 2010
... health agencies and sanitary police during the late Porfiriato and early revolutionary years. In the second section Barbosa analyzes the diverse occupations of those who worked on the streets using data drawn from official censuses, statistical bulletins, and contemporary travel accounts of the city...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Katherine Bliss Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 In a speech he presented to a gathering of public health specialists at the 1926 Pan American Sanitary Congress in Washington, D.C., Mexico’s representative, Dr. Bernardo Gastélum, singled out syphilis as the number one health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 603–635.
Published: 01 November 2012
... its two neighbors, Canada and Mexico, while applying tariffs to keep its doors closed to cattle and meat from South America. US cattle organizations permanently viewed Argentina’s export capacity as a menace to the domestic market and lobbied for tariff and sanitary protection against its animals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1960) 40 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 February 1960
...William Madsen Cultural Surveys of Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras . By Adams Richard N. . Washington, D. C. , 1957 . Pan American Sanitary Bureau . Scientific Publications, 33 . Appendices. Maps. Tables. Graphs. References . Pp. iii , 669 . Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 370.
Published: 01 May 1973
...R.N.S. Working principally with the World Health Organization, Dr. Fred L. Soper, an epidemiologist and director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau from 1947 to 1959, played a major role in the eradication of yellow fever and malaria in many parts of the world. This volume, which was originally...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (1): 178.
Published: 01 February 1980
.... Dr. Soper crowned his memorable career by serving as Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau from 1947 to 1959. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Ventures in World Health: The Memoirs of Fred Lowe Soper . Edited by Duffy John . Washington, D.C. , 1977 . Pan...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 469–502.
Published: 01 August 2011
... York: Basic Books, 1982), 197. 87 The Institute of Hygiene in São Paulo fared better, emerging eventually as an autonomous part of the sanitary structure of the city, but for years it faced opposition from the Medical School and from the Department of Sanitation, both of which were determined...
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