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CASAS ORREGO, Álvaro; CONGOTE, Jana Catalina (Coord.). Actualizando discursos: trazos de historia de la psiquiatría y de la salud pública en el contexto ibero-americano. Medellín: Resistencia, 2015.
 

 

Cada uno de los capitulos de este libro constituye un ensayo reflexivo en torno a las construcciones conceptuales que cpnfiguran nuevas formas de pensar la salud pública y la psiquiatría, en la perspectiva de una epistemología de las ciencias sociales. Cada uno de los autores brinda descripciones históricas y análisis, con innovación en el uso de fuentes documetnales, en favor de una historia que rescata ciertas particularidades de procesos locales o nacionales. En general todos ellos introducen a una analítica de los conceptos y a nuevas ofrmas de la interpretación en común de trabajos sobre historia de la psiquiatría con trabajos sobre historia de la salud pública se debe a cierto proceso de configuración de las líneas de indagación que en ambos campos se han visibilizado en el ejercício de la observación histórica que sobre las realidades urbanas modernas, han reconocido en Iberoamérica, en mútiples trabajos, la visibilización del alienado mental y del Estado, entre finales del siglo XIX y primeras décadas del siglo XX, generaba las estrategias biopolíticas y de saneamiento del cuerpo social.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DURANTI, Luciana; FRANKS, Patricia C. Encyclopedia of Archival Science. Lanham; Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

 

 

 

 

The purpose of this is to present the various and evolving interpretations and perspectives on archival concepts, principles, and practices. It is designed to aggregate the views of contemporary, well established, and highly regarded archival scholars and professionals and those of new and aspiring scholars and professionals into one, comprehensive work describing past achievemenst and leading the archival field toward the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

PORTER, Theodore M.; ROSS, Dorothy (Ed.). The Cambridge history of science: the modern social sciences – v.7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

  

 

This book provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of the social sciences (including behavioral and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. The authors offer original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to the science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, religion, and the professions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAVITT, Todd L. Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early- twentieth- century America. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2007.

 

 

 

 

It examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. He also explains why African Americans developed elephantiasis in the Charleston Low Country and not elsewhere in the country. Other topics Savitt explores include African American medical schools, the formation of an African American medical professional, and SIDS among Virginia slaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STALNAKER, Joanna. The unfinished enlightenment: description in the age of the Encyclopedia. Ithaca; New York: Cornell University Press, 2010.

 

 

  

 

Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science.She offers a fresh look at the fresh look at the French Enligthenment. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry; and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Bufforn, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, diderot, Delille, and Mercier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZÁRATE CÁRDENAS, E. Eduardo. La mayor epidemia del siglo XIX: fiebre amarilla, Lima 1868. Lima: Fondo Editorial Comunicacional del Colegio Médico del Perú, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

El autor, a través de este estudio analiza el impacto de una epidemia que se originó por la confluencia de factores biológicos, ambientales, culturales, sociales y políticos, que siguió su curso natural dejando a su paso muerte y desolación, pero que no logró despertar la conciencia sanitaria de los responsables de las políticas públicas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

GRELL, Ole Peter; CUNNINGHAM, Andrew; ARRIZABALAGA, Jon (Ed.). Centres of medical excellence?: medical travel and education in Europe, 1500-1789. London: Routledge, 2010.

  

 

The chapters os this books discuss about hte perigrinatio medica in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, the relation between the centres of excellence and the medical education, and of the mobility of medical students from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. It argues about the perigrinatio medica from the peripheries and to the centres and back again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REAGAN, Leslei J. Dangerous pregnancies: mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America. Berkeley: Unviersity of California Press, 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This book tells the mostly forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about disabled, dying, and dangerous babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century - the reproductive rights and the disabilit rigths movements. Award-winning writer the author chronicles for the first time the discoveres and dilemmas of this disease and reveals the depth of our fear of disability. full of intimate stories of anxiety and activism, this book includes riveting courtroom testimony,secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion, and starling media portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a disease that changed America, the book powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOLOMON, Michael. Fictions of well-being: sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

 

 

  

 

This book is about sickly readers, readers like myself who when confronted with the painful, disruptive, and often alienating conditions of physical disorder looked for relief in written sources. This book is also about the way certan physicians and medical writers attempted to refashion medical information so as to appeal to these readers. The author hopes is to explore a medical imaginary of well-being as kindled in the tropology of over three hundred vernacular sources. This include treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, dialogues, encyclopedias, and recipes - some discret, occupying a single volume others forming parts of larger treatises, and still others consisting of nothing more than a few lines inserted in the margins of diverse manuscripts. He also hopes that study will serve as a catalyst and paradigm for future work on the production, dissemination, and reception of medical writing for the lay reader. The author's unifying theme is the instrumentality effect of vernacular texts and books, as objects, on the reader's imagination and health. As a result, this book illuminates the relationship between academic and popular medicine and between the written word and the patient's perception.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEVENSON, Christine. Medicine and magnificence: British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660-1815. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries represent a golden age in the design and construction of hospitals and asylums for the insane. In Britain the great veterans' hospitals at Chelsea and Greenwich were erected, the ancient London hospitals completely reconstructed, and more than fifty other hospitals and asylums purpose-built by British charities or by the Navy. This book is the first devoted entirely to these fascinating buildings and to the wide contemporary interest that they aroused. In examining the planning and construction of English and Scottish hospitals in this period, architectural historian Christine Stevenson focuses on what these buildings meant--to architects, builders, donors, physicians, and the public--and how their meanings and functions changed. Stevenson shows that hospital design was directed by medical theory and concerns to a greater degree than has been previously assumed. But this wide-ranging book is much more than a technical history. Blending social history with the details of construction, Stevenson introduces a large cast of players: voyeuristic women and dreaming engineers, military physicians who destroyed and Freemasons who built. In bringing to life those involved in designing and working in the institutions and those attacking them, too, she offers a new view of architectural, cultural and medical practice in the period as a whole.