Article ID: CBB981960346

The Kimbalitos: The Plan Kimball, Cold War, and Medicine in Paraguay, 1956–64 (2021)

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This article studies a faculty exchange from the medical school at the University of Buffalo (later the State University of New York, University at Buffalo) to the medical school in Asunción, Paraguay in the 1950s and 1960s. The arrival of U.S.-trained medical professionals spurred a new pedagogical program designed to improve medical education by reducing the number of students enrolled, making the curriculum more scientifically oriented, and demanding the professionalization of its future doctors. Moreover, the program was strategically designed to depoliticize the medical school in Asunción at the height of the Cold War. Using oral interviews of Paraguayans who participated in the reforms, government records, and documents produced by U.S. medical professionals, the article tracks how the program was started and under what conditions it operated, and concludes that both the United States and Paraguayan medical professionals considered the program a success—it improved the quality of Paraguayan medical professionals and, at least temporarily, neutralized the political leanings of the medical school.

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Authors & Contributors
Martin Robert
Chowkwanyun, Merlin
Caldwell, Elizabeth Frances
Jiang, Lijing
Duffull, Stephen B.
Baum, Emily Lauren
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Professions and professionalization
Medical education and teaching
Cross-national interaction
Medicine
Discipline formation
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Spain
Germany
China
United Kingdom
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Institutions
Population Council
University of Paris V
Buenos Aires. Universidad
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