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"An Unusual and Fast Disappearing Opportunity": Infectious Disease, Indigenous Populations, and New Biomedical Knowledge in Amazonia, 1960–1970 (2017)

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Indigenous peoples; indigeneity Disease and diseases Traditional knowledge Medicine, traditional 20th century Amazon River Region (South America)

In the twentieth century, biomedical researchers believed the study of Indigenous Amazonians could inform global histories of human biological diversity. This paper examines the similarities and differences of two approaches to this mid-century biomedical research, comparing the work of virologist and epidemiologist Francis Black with human geneticists James V. Neel and Francisco Salzano. While both groups were interested in Indigenous populations as representatives of the past, their perspectives on epidemics diverged. For Black, outbreaks of infectious diseases were central to his methodological and theoretical interests; for Neel and Salzano, epidemics could potentially compromise the epistemological value of their data.

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Authors & Contributors
Y. Srinivasa Rao
Julie Laplante
de la Torre, Oscar
Sindhu Thomas
Heaney, Christopher
John Hemming
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Social Studies of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Indian Journal of History of Science
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Health and History
Publishers
Berghahn Books
The University of North Carolina Press
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
University of Utah Press
Thames & Hudson
Rutgers University
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Medicine, traditional
Traditional knowledge
Disease and diseases
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and race
People
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Spruce, Richard
Schultes, Richard Evans
Chagas, Carlos
Bates, Henry Walter
Andrade, Mário de
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Amazon River Region (South America)
Brazil
Andes
India
Fiji
Queensland (Australia)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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