Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Child mortality and the medicalization of childhood. The Titiribí case, 1910-1950
2011; National University of Colombia at Medellín; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2357-4720
AutoresÓscar Gallo, Jorge Márquez Valderrama,
Tópico(s)Public Health and Social Inequalities
ResumoThis paper presents a case study on ''infant mortality'' in a major Colombian mining district in the early 19th century. Local and rural aspects are examined without sacrificing the analysis in the national and the international levels, since this issue emerged in the international and Colombian medical fields at the same time as a new responsiveness towards infancy was expanding and consolidating itself. Filiations, sources and theoretical tools used by Colombian physicians to treat infancy at the time fit in a wide international movement, which was a scientific, political, economic and demographic movement all at once. The analysis of a particular case, from Titiribi Municipality Records, illustrates the local and regional dimensions of infant mortality, while contributing to public health historiography in Colombian rural areas.
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