Patterns of child health and well-being in Latin America's past - have been assumed to be delayed and derivative of European and North American experiences. Through an examination of recent historiography, this essay traces a more complex reality: interest in infant and child health in Latin America arose from a range of domestic and regional prerogatives. This attention was rooted in preColumbian cultures, then relegated to the private sphere during the colonial period, except for young public wards. Starting in the 19th century, professionals, reformers, and policy-makers throughout the region regarded child health as a matter central to building modern societies. Burgeoning initiatives were also linked to international priorities and developments, not through one-way diffusion but via ongoing interaction of ideas and experts. Despite pioneering approaches to children's rights and health in Latin America, commitment to child well-being has remained uneven, constrained in many settings by problematic political and economic conditions.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Tiziana Dall'Osso;
(2023)
Sanità e infanzia a Bologna: Cinque secoli di storia
(/isis/citation/CBB485585957/)
Article
Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assunção;
Teixeira, Luiz Antonio;
(2014)
Reforma sanitária e a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde: notas sobre contextos e autores
(/isis/citation/CBB001420707/)
Book
Patrizia Cincinnati;
(2023)
Note sulla storia della pediatria in Italia dall'unità al secondo dopoguerra
(/isis/citation/CBB960123901/)
Book
Barbara Barksdale Clowse;
(2020)
A Doctor for Rural America: The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley
(/isis/citation/CBB837947269/)
Article
Condran, Gretchen A.;
Murphy, Jennifer;
(2008)
Defining and Managing Infant Mortality: A Case Study of Philadelphia, 1870--1920
(/isis/citation/CBB001231862/)
Book
Eugenia Tognotti;
(2020)
Vaccinare i bambini tra obbligo e persuasione: Tre secoli di controversie. Il caso dell'Italia
(/isis/citation/CBB142911314/)
Article
Godoy, Andresa Michele;
Lopes, Doraci Alves;
Garcia, Rosa Wanda Diez;
(2007)
Transformações socioculturais da alimentação hospitalar
(/isis/citation/CBB000831550/)
Book
McCrea, Heather L.;
(2010)
Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847--1924
(/isis/citation/CBB001200622/)
Article
Junaidi;
Lila Pelita Hati;
Nurhabsyah;
Kiki Maulana Affandi;
(2023)
Weaving Hope in Tanah Deli: Life and Healthcare of Plantation Workers in the East Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB983159621/)
Book
Weindling, Paul;
(2015)
Healthcare in private and public from the early modern period to 2000
(/isis/citation/CBB001510007/)
Article
Paolo Petralia;
Alberto Macciò;
(2020)
Healthcare-related Itinerary in a Multicultural City in Northern Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB240957940/)
Article
Siena, Kevin;
(2010)
Hospitals for the Excluded or Convalescent Homes? Workhouses, Medicalization and the Poor Law in Long Eighteenth-Century London and Pre-Confederation Toronto
(/isis/citation/CBB001024899/)
Book
Martha Few;
(2015)
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
(/isis/citation/CBB029842103/)
Book
Kim Price;
(2016)
Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain: The Crisis of Care under the English Poor Law, c.1834-1900
(/isis/citation/CBB326067926/)
Book
Jessica L. Adler;
(2017)
Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System
(/isis/citation/CBB078647668/)
Article
Revuelta Eugercios, Bárbara Ana;
(2015)
¿Qué pasa en la Inclusa? The Role of Press Scandals, Doctors and Public Authorities in the Evolution of La Inclusa De Madrid, 1890--1935
(/isis/citation/CBB001552512/)
Article
Arnold, David J.;
(2012)
The Medicalization of Poverty in Colonial India
(/isis/citation/CBB001213112/)
Book
Angela Davis;
(2015)
Pre-School Childcare in England, 1939-2010: Theory, Practice and Experience
(/isis/citation/CBB063803562/)
Book
Dawes, Laura;
(2014)
Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic
(/isis/citation/CBB001510031/)
Article
Andrade, Maria de Fatima de Oliveira;
Martins, Maria Cezira Fantini Nogueira;
Bógus, Cláudia Maria;
(2007)
Casa Siloé: a história de uma ONG para crianças portadoras de HIV/AIDS
(/isis/citation/CBB000831579/)
Medicina Historica
Social Science History
Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Be the first to comment!