Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925

Pineo, Ronn

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“…Although malaria was prevalent on the coast of Ecuador at the beginning of the 20th century, it was considered by public health officials to be a minor problem ( 6 ). Until 1908, Guayaquil on the coast of Ecuador was affected by the constant menace of mosquitoes transmitting yellow fever, and flea-borne bubonic plague reoccurred regularly in all areas of the city and surrounding countryside ( 6 – 8 ).…”

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“…Until 1908, Guayaquil on the coast of Ecuador was affected by the constant menace of mosquitoes transmitting yellow fever, and flea-borne bubonic plague reoccurred regularly in all areas of the city and surrounding countryside ( 6 – 8 ). Because Guayaquil had an image of being an unhealthy major port city, officials in Ecuador signed an international sanitation convention in 1906 to combat outbreaks of yellow fever, bubonic plague, and cholera ( 9 ).…”

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“…In 1919, many physicians in Ecuador began to receive training in foreign countries, particularly in the United States through grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, in an attempt to eliminate yellow fever and malaria from Ecuador ( 6 , 8 , 12 ). With the elimination of yellow fever in 1920, attention inevitably turned to malaria, which still accounted for a large percentage of deaths on the coast of Ecuador ( 13 ).…”

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Malaria in Highlands of Ecuador since 1900

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2012

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Malaria in Highlands of Ecuador since 1900

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2012

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“…Su foco está en los avatares de las enfermedades contagiosas que azotaron sorpresiva e intensamente las ciudades entre el último tercio del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX y que, en algunos casos, han vuelto hacerlo en las postrimerías del XX (Scenna, 1974;Oliver, 1996;Telarolli, 1996;Cano, 1996;Prieto, 1996;Florescano & Malvido, 1997;Armus, 2000a;Pineo, 1990;Adamo, 1997;Cueto, 2003;Briggs & Mantini-Briggs, 2003). Algunas de estas historias enfatizan en las condiciones sociales en que emerge la coyuntura epidémica, las técnicas y políticas implementadas para combatirla y las reacciones de los gobiernos, la elite, los grupos profesionales y la gente común.…”

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Críticas e Atuantes: ciências sociais e humanas em saúde na América Latina

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2005

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Spectacle, Fear, and Protest

Rosenthal¹

2000

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The history of the city in twentieth-century Latin America can be seen as a long contest over the exercise of urban public space. While the nature of this space is often less physical than it is social and situational, the struggle between different elements of the city to manipulate its politics and control its daily life has often been violent, leaving deep imprints in the collective memories of places as culturally and physically diverse as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Bogotá, and Rio de Janeiro.If approached from the perspective of contested space, the urban milieu offers an intriguing site for the historian interestedin exploring changing relations of power, class conflict, opposing visions of the future, breakdowns of social order, gendered spaces, health and disease, visual culture, spectacle and symbolic codes, and ultimately, the creation of community. Yet until the 1980s, most Latin American historians who were interestedin these themes confined their studies to the countryside. As late as 1975, Jorge Hardoy (1975:44) could write that “the urban history of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth is virtually unknown, in spite of the extremely rich material left to us by innumerable travelers, scientists, and men of state.” While historians and social scientists working from the 1950s through much of the 1970s delineated the complex relations between peasant villages and national states, the ideologies of rural rebellion, and the sources of identity and community in a countryside transformed by the demands of export capital, cities in twentieth-century Latin America were accorded secondary treatment, sometimes at the level of popular anecdotal narratives.

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Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925

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Malaria in Highlands of Ecuador since 1900

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Spectacle, Fear, and Protest

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