2008
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702008000200015
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Importation et destin de la première théorie des germes au Mexique: développement des premières recherches sur la fièvre jaune dans les années 1880

Abstract: Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre de la discussion du transfert de connaissances entre l'Occident et l'Amérique latine, le Mexique en particulier. Nous essayerons de montrer les enjeux internationaux et locaux qui ont encouragé l'importation de la théorie des germes au Mexique pendant les années 1880. Par ailleurs, on montrera quelles ont été les difficultés conceptuelles et matérielles pour incorporer la théorie des germes et les techniques bactériologiques encore en train de se bâtir en Europe. Au moyen de … Show more

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“…These doctors claimed that studying local pathologies, such as the periodic fevers of hot climates, was the way to create a national medicine on the basis of a body of doctrine of their own, which they argued could take advantage of their privileged situation, since they were located where the fevers themselves were produced -in a hot climate (García, 2007). These arguments changed by 1887, when the practice of preventive inoculation of microorganisms against yellow fever in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia (Benchimol, 1999;García, 2012a;Lozano, 2008;Warner, 1985) triggered a debate among Colombian doctors that culminated with the acceptance of yellow fever as a specific disease caused by a germ yet to be established (García, 2012a). The rhetoric of building a national medicine was replaced in the late 1880s by one that expressed the physicians' wish to become part of a "universal science" thanks to the new medical bacteriology, in a process that involved a transformation in the ways of knowing and the objectivity seen as legitimate among Colombian scientific and medical elites (García, Pohl-Valero, 2016).…”
Section: Yellow Fever Without Presentismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These doctors claimed that studying local pathologies, such as the periodic fevers of hot climates, was the way to create a national medicine on the basis of a body of doctrine of their own, which they argued could take advantage of their privileged situation, since they were located where the fevers themselves were produced -in a hot climate (García, 2007). These arguments changed by 1887, when the practice of preventive inoculation of microorganisms against yellow fever in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia (Benchimol, 1999;García, 2012a;Lozano, 2008;Warner, 1985) triggered a debate among Colombian doctors that culminated with the acceptance of yellow fever as a specific disease caused by a germ yet to be established (García, 2012a). The rhetoric of building a national medicine was replaced in the late 1880s by one that expressed the physicians' wish to become part of a "universal science" thanks to the new medical bacteriology, in a process that involved a transformation in the ways of knowing and the objectivity seen as legitimate among Colombian scientific and medical elites (García, Pohl-Valero, 2016).…”
Section: Yellow Fever Without Presentismmentioning
confidence: 99%