Article ID: CBB000932895

Ferrovias, doenças e medicina tropical no Brasil da Primeira República (2008)

unapi

Benchimol, Jaime Larry (Author)
Silva, André Felipe Cândido da (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 15
Pages: 719--762


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Article also in English. English title: [Railroads, Disease, and Tropical Medicine in Brazil under the First Republic]. Proceedings from the conference “Engineering and the Natural Sciences: Communication and transportation infrastructure in the history of the sciences in Ibero-America” held at the Universidade de La Plata, Argentina, on May 1-6, 2006.
Language: Portuguese

The article explores the impact of malaria on infrastructure works - above all, railroads - under the republican drive towards modernization. Railways helped tie the territory together and foster the symbolic and material expansion of the Brazilian nation. The scientists entrusted with vanquishing such epidemic outbreaks did not just conduct campaigns; they also undertook painstaking observations of aspects of the disease, including its relations to hosts and the environment, thus contributing to the production of new knowledge of malaria and to the institutionalization of a new field in Brazil, then taking root in Europe's colonies: "tropical medicine." The article shows the ties between these innovations (especially the theory of domiciliary infection) and the sanitary campaigns that helped the railways, which in the 1920s were followed by a new phase in Brazil's anti-malaria efforts.

...More
Included in

Article Contreras, Carlos; Cueto, Marcos (2008) Caminos, ciencia y Estado en el Perú, 1850--1930. História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos (p. 635). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000932895/

Similar Citations

Article Schweickardt, Júlio César; Lima, Nísia Trindade; (2007)
Os cientistas brasileiros visitam a Amazônia: as viagens científicas de Oswaldo Cruz e Carlos Chagas (1910--1913) (/isis/citation/CBB000831573/)

Article Markus, Miles B.; (2011)
Malaria: Origin of the Term “Hypnozoite” (/isis/citation/CBB001220961/)

Article Li, Runhong; (2011)
The “523 Project” and the Rediscovery of Sweet Wormwood's Antimalarial Effect (/isis/citation/CBB001221350/)

Article Andrade, Rômulo de Paula; Hochman, Gilberto; (2007)
O Plano de Saneamento da Amazônia (1940--1942) (/isis/citation/CBB000831581/)

Article Paulini, Ernest; (2004)
O passado revisitado: o Instituto de Malariologia e o Instituto de Endemias Rurais (INERu) (/isis/citation/CBB000640145/)

Article Diniz, Maria Cecília P.; Figueiredo, Betânia Gonçalves; Schall, Virgínia Torres; (2009)
Hortênsia de Hollanda: a arte da educação em saúde para prevenção e controle das endemias no Brasil (/isis/citation/CBB000932962/)

Article Lisboa, Karen Macknow; (2013)
Insalubridade, doenças e imigração: visões alemãs sobre o Brasil (/isis/citation/CBB001420635/)

Article Silva, André Felipe Cândido da; Benchimol, Jaime Larry; (2014)
Malaria and Quinine Resistance: A Medical and Scientific Issue between Brazil and Germany (1907--19) (/isis/citation/CBB001320605/)

Book Anderson, Warwick; (2006)
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Phillipines (/isis/citation/CBB000831472/)

Book Carter, Eric D.; (2012)
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina (/isis/citation/CBB001251685/)

Article Jones, Margaret; (2013)
A “Textbook Pattern”? Malaria Control and Eradication in Jamaica, 1910--65 (/isis/citation/CBB001320597/)

Article Campos, Carlos Eduardo Aguilera; (2007)
As origens da rede de serviços de atenção básica no Brasil: o Sistema Distrital de Administração Sanitária (/isis/citation/CBB000831537/)

Article Costa, Rui Manuel Pinto; Vieira, Ismael Cerqueira; (2014)
O lugar da medicina tropical nas dissertações da escola médica portuense, 1875--1923 (/isis/citation/CBB001420726/)

Article Lee, S. H.; (2014)
Joining WHO of Republic of Korea and the Projects in the 1950s (/isis/citation/CBB001422419/)

Article Yeo, I. S.; (2015)
U.S. Military Administration's Malaria Control Activities (1945--1948) (/isis/citation/CBB001422433/)

Authors & Contributors
Carter, Eric D.
Keating, Conrad
Yeo, I. S.
Lee, S. H.
Vieira, Ismael Cerqueira
Valobra, Adriana
Concepts
Public health
Malaria
Prevention and control of disease
Tropical medicine
Sanitation
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Brazil
Amazon River Region (South America)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Argentina
Germany
Korea
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
Rockefeller Foundation
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment