History of Public Health in the Americas and the Caribbean

8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga
9:00 – 10:25
Adam Warren (University of Washington)
Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950

Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB)
Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925

10:25 – 10:40
BREAK

10:40 – 12:40
Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, and Parasites: Medicine and Identity Formation in the Tropics (or the “Indiscriminate Vector”)

Nicole Pacino (UCSB)
A Small Oasis in a Large Intellectual Desert: Debates over Rockefeller Foundation Funding to Revolutionary Bolivia

Jill Briggs (UCSB)
Venereal Disease in 1930s Jamaica: moral panic and a case of mistaken identity

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch (only for presenters)
Faculty Club

2:10 – 3:40
Jethro Hernandez-Berrones (UCSF)
“Medicos científicos” or “bifurcación de la ciencia”: Homeopathy and the struggle against the monopolization of the medical profession in Mexico, 1895-1924.

Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Creating Rural Doctors for the Modern State: Curricular Changes and Social Service for Mexican Medical Students, 1934-1945

3:40-3:50 Break
3:50 – 5:00 Wrap-Up: Common Themes, Disparities & New ideas

The event is free and open to the public.

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