¿Agresiones de la altura y degeneración fisiológica? La biografía del “clima” como objeto de investigación científica en Colombia durante el siglo xix e inicios del xx

Pohl-Valero, Stefan

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“…At the same time that some physicians working on tropical medicine were sure that tropical climate was no longer assumed to be the main cause of “human degeneration” (Martínez Santamaría 1909, 1), others, working on human physiology, started to analyze in the laboratory the effects of tropical high altitude climates on the functioning of the body (Corpas 1910; Torres 1913). In contrast to the geographical physiology of Vargas Vega mentioned in the first part of this article, this high altitude physiology was based not on direct and personal observation of the object of inquiry, but on facts produced in the laboratory and contrasted with standardized and mean values (Pohl-Valero 2015).…”

Section: People Disease and Society According To Bacteriology And Pmentioning

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“…In these sites were performed chemical and bacteriological analysis of blood, urine, poisons, water, milk, various foods, and alcoholic beverages; and some of them performed specific research on the Hansen and Koch bacilli but on a small scale. Biologicals were also produced in some of these laboratories, such as anti-diphtheria serum (República de Colombia 1888, 29–30; Lleras Codazi 1914; Molano Daza 1915; Solano 1918; Flórez 1919; Quevedo et al 2004; Márquez 2005; Restrepo Zea 2011; Pohl-Valero 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Formal training in the natural and social sciences were non-existent, and most local scientists were lawyers, physicians, or engineers who acted as amateur naturalists and/or experimentalists, and/or sociologists. Additionally, museums of natural history and laboratories were extremely precarious (Obregón 1992; Restrepo 1993; García 2012a; Pohl-Valero 2015). Local actors, nevertheless, intended to make original knowledge claims and discussed how proper science should be performed under styles of knowledge in which the boundaries between, for example, field work and laboratory work, between observation and experimentation, or between natural sciences and social sciences were diffuse and not necessarily clear cut 2…”

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“…Concerning experimental sciences, some historians have explored the conciliation of Neo-Hippocratic and Pasteurian ideas and practices by the end of the nineteenth century (Obregón 1998; Márquez 2005; García 2012b). Histories of physiology in Colombia are very scant (Pohl-Valero 2015), and it is no exaggeration to say that a history of laboratory science in Colombia has so far been neglected. In contrast, the social and cultural history of tropical medicine, bacteriology, and physiology in other Latin American countries have received increased attention in the last decades (Cueto 1989; Cueto 1994; Cházaro 1993; Benchimol 1999; Peard 1999; Löwy 2001; Rodríguez de Romo and Pérez Padilla 2003; Kropf and Romero 2009; Delaporte 2012; Vimieiro Gomes 2013).…”

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Styles of Knowledge Production in Colombia, 1850–1920

García

Pohl-Valero

2016

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Argument Using the notion of styles of knowledge we refer to the ways diverse scientific communities claim to produce true knowledge, their understandings regarding the attitudes and values that scientists should have in order to grasp natural and social reality, and the practices and technologies developed within such styles. This paper analyzes scientific and medical enterprises that explored the relationship between environment, population, and society in Colombia between 1850 and 1920. We argue that similar styles of knowledge production were shared in human geography, medical geography, and climatic physiology at the mid-nineteenth century; and that some physicians working in bacteriology and physiology since the 1880s established epistemic boundaries between their work and earlier scientific activities, while others found these distinctions irrelevant. However, the historical actors committed to any of the styles of knowledge production explored in this article agreed on the local specificity of their objects of inquiry, therefore questioning European science. These styles of knowledge production also shaped different ways of perceiving and addressing national problems. Hence, this article is a contribution to the recent literature on both historical epistemology and social and cultural history of science and medicine.

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Section: People Disease and Society According To Bacteriology And Pmentioning

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Styles of Knowledge Production in Colombia, 1850–1920

García

Pohl-Valero

2016

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“…En el caso colombiano, la íntima asociación entre etnia y raza plantea grandes cuestionamientos sobre cómo es pensada la diversidad cultural y cómo se ubican aquellos grupos indígenas, afrocolombianos, negros, raizales, palenqueros y gitanos (5). Es allí donde la diferencia y la respuesta social a esta se hacen difusas, más aún cuando estos individuos no pueden ser racializados por su fenotipo y porque, además, viven una cotidianidad urbana en la cual se diluyen en la masa poblacional del país (6).…”

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Atención médica y diferencia cultural. Acceso a atención médica de mujeres musulmanas en Bogotá

Arboleda-Sarmiento

Suárez-Montañez²

2017

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<p>Desde 1991 Colombia se define constitucionalmente como un país multicultural. Sin embargo, la aplicación de esta definición es aún incierta. Sobre esta base, el texto explora la relación entre diversidad cultural y acceso a servicios de salud, a partir del caso de las mujeres musulmanas en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. Se plantea cómo los estilos de vida, el género y los sistemas de creencias afectan las trayectorias de cuidado y el encuentro terapéutico de personas definidas como musulmanes en los servicios de atención médica. Se desarrolló un trabajo de corte cualitativo, donde se articulan la salud pública y la antropología médica. Se encontró que el acceso a la atención médica de las mujeres musulmanas está mediado por interacciones sociales que facilitan los desencuentros médicos. De allí que la promoción de la salud y la prevención de la enfermedad requieran la comprensión e integración de la cultura como categoría mediadora en la salud pública.</p><p> </p>

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The Scientific Lives ofChicha

Pohl-Valero

2020

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Título en inglés: Epistemic, institutional, and material assemblages of a public policy in health about coto in Colombia, 1935Colombia, -1970 This research is based on science and technology studies and cultural history to identify and explore the path through which coto was built as an object of scientific research and political and economic intervention during the XX century in Colombia, including the institutional and epistemic assemblages that lead to the establishment of public policies in health, the artificial iodization of salt in the country, its execution, and consequences. A specific study is made about the construction of the iodization policy in Colombia, between 1935-1955 in which we deal with the debates about the nature of the disease, the studies carried out to for its conceptualization and the campaigns that lead to the establishment of the Decree 591 of 1955, by which the iodization of all salt is decreed and regulated. We use the theories of coproduction and assemblage to build this narration in which we also highlight the processes of expertise building, the consolidation of a particular institutional structure and the standardization and quantification processes that make sense of the policy and the disease.

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¿Agresiones de la altura y degeneración fisiológica? La biografía del “clima” como objeto de investigación científica en Colombia durante el siglo xix e inicios del xx

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Styles of Knowledge Production in Colombia, 1850–1920

Styles of Knowledge Production in Colombia, 1850–1920

Atención médica y diferencia cultural. Acceso a atención médica de mujeres musulmanas en Bogotá

The Scientific Lives ofChicha

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