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El mal de Chagas en los ojos de la Nación: ciencia y salud en Brasil a comienzos del siglo XX
Chagas disease in the eyes of the Nation: science and health in Brazil at the beginnings of the 20th century
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Kropf, Simone Petraglia. El mal de Chagas en los ojos de la Nación: ciencia y salud en Brasil a comienzos del siglo XX. Salud colectiva, Buenos Aires, v.4 n.3, p.363-372, sept.-dic. 2008.
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Kropf, Simone Petraglia
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Since the early studies on the disease that takes his name, Carlos Chagas stated that the new trypanosomiasis, discovered by him in 1909, represented an important public health problem in Brazil for hampering the development and productiveness of rural populations. Chagas disease became the most important item of the research agenda of Oswaldo Cruz Institute. It was defined as a scientific-medical object as well as a social object, representing a certain perspective over the Brazilian nation and the role of science in leading it towards "progress" in the early years of the republican modernization. This process -that expresses the social dimension of the production of scientific facts- is analysed in this paper using the article published in the newspaper O Paiz under the title "Carlos Chagas Disease. A memorable session at the National Academy of Medicine", in October 31st, 1910, in which the physician Ismael da Rocha describes and comments Chagas' first public conference to present the main aspects of the knowledge about the new disease. Desde los primeros estudios sobre la enfermedad que lleva su nombre, Carlos Chagas afirmó que la nueva tripanosomiasis, descubierta por él en 1909, representaba un importante problema de salud pública para Brasil, al perjudicar el desarrollo y la productividad de las poblaciones rurales. Constituyendo la gran vidriera de la agenda de investigaciones del Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, el mal de Chagas fue definido como objeto médico-científico y también como objeto social, representando una cierta perspectiva sobre la nación brasileña y el papel de la ciencia de conducirla al "progreso", en los primeros años de la modernización republicana. Este proceso -que expresa la dimensión social de los hechos científicos- se analiza aquí a partir de un artículo publicado en el diario O Paiz, el 31 de octubre de 1910, bajo el título "A Doença de Carlos Chagas. Uma sessão memorável na Academia Nacional de Medicina", en el cual el médico Ismael da Rocha describe y comenta la primera conferencia pública de Chagas, en la que presentó los principales conocimientos sobre la nueva enfermedad.
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