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Typhoid fever in nineteenth-century Colombia: Between medical geography and bacteriology

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dc.creatorGarcía, Mónicaspa
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-25T23:56:57Z
dc.date.available2020-05-25T23:56:57Z
dc.date.created2014spa
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second half of the nineteenth century. Assuming that the identity of typhoid fever has to be understood within the broader concerns of the medical community in question, I show how doctors first identified Bogotá's epidemics as typhoid fever during the 1850s, and how they also attached specificity to the fever amongst other continuous fevers, such as its European and North American counterparts. I also found that, in contrast with the discussions amongst their colleagues from other countries, debates about typhoid fever in 1860-70 among doctors in Colombia were framed within the medico-geographical scheme and strongly shaped by the fear of typhoid fever appearing alongside 'paludic' fevers in the highlands. By arguing in medico-geographical and clinical terms that typhoid fever had specificity in Colombia, and by denying the medico-geographical law of antagonism between typhoid and paludic fevers proposed by the Frenchman Charles Boudin, Colombian doctors managed to question European knowledge and claimed that typhoid fever had distinct features in Colombia. The focus on paludic and typhoid fevers in the highlands might explain why the bacteriological aetiology of typhoid fever was ignored and even contested during the 1880s. Anti-Pasteurian arguments were raised against its germ identity and some physicians even supported the idea of spontaneous origin of the disease. By the 1890s, Pasteurian knowledge had come to shape clinical and hygienic practices. © 2014 the Author(s).eng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2013.70
dc.identifier.issn257273
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22569
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.relation.citationEndPage45
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 1
dc.relation.citationStartPage27
dc.relation.citationTitleMedical History
dc.relation.citationVolumeVol. 58
dc.relation.ispartofMedical History, ISSN:257273, Vol.58, No.1 (2014); pp. 27-45spa
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dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.keywordArticlespa
dc.subject.keywordmedicaleng
dc.subject.keywordBacteriologyspa
dc.subject.keywordColombiaspa
dc.subject.keywordConflictspa
dc.subject.keywordFeverspa
dc.subject.keywordHistoryspa
dc.subject.keywordHumanspa
dc.subject.keywordMedical geographyspa
dc.subject.keywordPhysicianspa
dc.subject.keywordPsychological aspectspa
dc.subject.keywordTyphoid feverspa
dc.subject.keywordBacteriologyspa
dc.subject.keywordColombiaspa
dc.subject.keywordDissent and disputesspa
dc.subject.keywordFeverspa
dc.subject.keywordGeographyeng
dc.subject.keywordHistory, 19th centuryspa
dc.subject.keywordHumansspa
dc.subject.keywordPhysiciansspa
dc.subject.keywordTyphoid feverspa
dc.subject.keywordBacteriologyspa
dc.subject.keywordColombiaspa
dc.subject.keywordFeversspa
dc.subject.keywordHistory of medicinespa
dc.subject.keywordMedical geographyspa
dc.subject.keywordTyphoid feverspa
dc.titleTyphoid fever in nineteenth-century Colombia: Between medical geography and bacteriologyspa
dc.typearticleeng
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dc.type.spaArtículospa
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