Article ID: CBB001421215

Climate, Medicine, and Peruvian Health Resorts (2014)

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Carey, Mark (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 39, no. 6
Issue: 6
Pages: 795-818


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Voices from within and outside the South--Defying STS Epistemologies, Boundaries, and Theories”
Language: English

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Peruvian Andes ranked as a key international destination for those afflicted with one of the world's most deadly diseases, tuberculosis. Physicians, scientists, policy makers, and patients believed that high-elevation mountain climates worldwide would help cure the disease. Historical processes driving the creation of Andean health resorts, which are understudied in the historiography, uncover an important story in the history of tuberculosis, and also reveal how global health initiatives and disease treatment played out within the global South, where national forces and local environmental conditions influenced the trajectory of science and medicine. Jauja, Peru, became an internationally recognized health resort for tuberculosis treatment not only through science and medicine but also through national political integration campaigns, transportation initiatives, economic development agendas, social (race and class) relations, cultural perspectives of the Andean landscape, and the impact of the physical environment. This historical case about the evolution of Jauja reveals how science and medicine are shaped by distinct spatial forces that illuminate a geography of science in the postcolonial setting, as well as the ways in which climate is culturally constructed in specific sites, by different peoples, and at distinct points in time.

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Authors & Contributors
Guillaume Linte
Paul-Arthur Tortosa
Balestra, Alessandra Maria
McCrea, Heather
Yeo, I. S.
Shin, J. H.
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Infectious diseases
Tuberculosis
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Argentina
United States
Germany
India
Caribbean
Great Britain
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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