Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946

The historiography on tuberculosis in Colombia does not include studies covering the connection between this illness and the working world. When analysing this issue, we are able to appreciate its richness based on several facts : an increase in tuberculosis occurrences across the twentieth century ...

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Autores principales: Oscar Gallo Vélez, Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6fddcde42c7d4111883182402057495b2021-12-02T10:33:24ZTuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-19461626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.69862https://doaj.org/article/6fddcde42c7d4111883182402057495b2016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/69862https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The historiography on tuberculosis in Colombia does not include studies covering the connection between this illness and the working world. When analysing this issue, we are able to appreciate its richness based on several facts : an increase in tuberculosis occurrences across the twentieth century ; the survival of a segregationist imaginary of the tuberculous ; the debate around classifying tuberculosis as an occupational disease. We are aiming to understand the links between the reality of tuberculosis and workers in the Colombian context, finding that both facts cannot be separated from the history of occupational diseases, occupational medicine, and the emergence of social security. The tuberculous worker has been the junction point of a thread of events, debates, and local and global processes marking the transition from a notion of tuberculosis as a hindrance for work towards the realization of work as a potential pathogen in tuberculosis. Such a transition occurred in the context of health economics including tuberculosis in the risk rationale and in the assessment of occupational disease, within the bounds of debates involving patients, lawmakers, businessmen, occupational physicians and the State.Oscar Gallo VélezJorge Márquez ValderramaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleoccupational disease20th century Colombian historysocial securitytuberculosisAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2016)
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language EN
FR
PT
topic occupational disease
20th century Colombian history
social security
tuberculosis
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle occupational disease
20th century Colombian history
social security
tuberculosis
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Oscar Gallo Vélez
Jorge Márquez Valderrama
Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
description The historiography on tuberculosis in Colombia does not include studies covering the connection between this illness and the working world. When analysing this issue, we are able to appreciate its richness based on several facts : an increase in tuberculosis occurrences across the twentieth century ; the survival of a segregationist imaginary of the tuberculous ; the debate around classifying tuberculosis as an occupational disease. We are aiming to understand the links between the reality of tuberculosis and workers in the Colombian context, finding that both facts cannot be separated from the history of occupational diseases, occupational medicine, and the emergence of social security. The tuberculous worker has been the junction point of a thread of events, debates, and local and global processes marking the transition from a notion of tuberculosis as a hindrance for work towards the realization of work as a potential pathogen in tuberculosis. Such a transition occurred in the context of health economics including tuberculosis in the risk rationale and in the assessment of occupational disease, within the bounds of debates involving patients, lawmakers, businessmen, occupational physicians and the State.
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author Oscar Gallo Vélez
Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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title Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
title_short Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
title_full Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
title_fullStr Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
title_sort tuberculosis en el mundo laboral colombiano 1934-1946
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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