Dissertation Research: One Hundred Years of Malaria: a History of Malaria and its Control in Twentieth Century Colombia

论文研究：疟疾一百年：二十世纪哥伦比亚疟疾及其控制的历史

• 批准号: 0432144
• 负责人: Nancy Stepan
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0432144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Hundred; Years; Malaria

This is a Science and Technology Studies dissertation improvement grant that examines the history of malaria and efforts to control it in twentieth century Colombia. Funds from the grant will support travel, room and board expenses, as well as some expenses for equipment. Through archival research in three cities in Colombia, and the archives of the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Library of Medicine, and oral history interviews with participants in malaria control in Colombia, the researcher will analyze the way in which the spread of the disease and its control have been shaped by factors beyond biology, such as an evolving economy, settlement of the agricultural frontier, political upheaval, rural warfare and migratory movements. This dissertation emphasizes the local dimensions of international disease control projects, and especially the reinterpretation of strategies that took place as the implementation of international programs proceeded in a country-specific context. This research contributes to the recent surge of studies that aim to uncover the various strategies that have been followed in the past to deal with malaria, in which Latin America is underrepresented, and Colombia almost entirely overlooked. A critical, historical examination of past malaria control efforts in a major country in Latin America, against a background of the internationalization of anti-malaria public health that occurred in the twentieth century, will help inform current public health debates about how to deal with the continuing burden of malaria in the twenty-first century. This research contributes to the study of the culture and politics of international health, revealing assumptions about development as well as the ideological underpinnings of modernization and civilization of .third world. countries. It is also part of the larger history of tropical medicine, and of the new critical studies of science and medicine in relation to imperialism, in which Latin America has been remarkably absent. This research will also contribute to the field of environmental history, and more particularly, to the links between environmental history and the history of public health. Results from this research will be made available in Colombia through the creation of a website that can be used as an educational resource.

这是一个科学和技术研究论文改进补助金，审查疟疾的历史和努力控制它在二十世纪哥伦比亚。赠款资金将用于支付旅费、食宿费以及一些设备费用。通过对哥伦比亚三个城市的档案研究，以及世界卫生组织，泛美卫生组织，国家档案和记录管理局和国家医学图书馆的档案，以及对哥伦比亚疟疾控制参与者的口述历史采访，研究人员将分析疾病的传播及其控制是由生物学以外的因素塑造的，如经济的发展、农业边疆的定居、政治动荡、农村战争和移民运动。本论文强调国际疾病控制项目的地方层面，特别是重新解释的战略，发生在一个国家的具体情况下进行的国际项目的实施。 这项研究有助于最近的研究激增，旨在揭示过去为应对疟疾而采取的各种战略，其中拉丁美洲的代表性不足，哥伦比亚几乎完全被忽视。在二十世纪抗疟公共卫生国际化的背景下，对拉丁美洲一个主要国家过去的疟疾防治工作进行批判性的历史性审查，将有助于为当前关于如何应对二十一世纪疟疾持续负担的公共卫生辩论提供信息。 这项研究有助于研究国际卫生的文化和政治，揭示关于发展的假设以及第三世界现代化和文明的思想基础。国家它也是热带医学更大历史的一部分，也是对科学和医学与帝国主义关系的新批判性研究的一部分，拉丁美洲在这方面明显缺席。这项研究也将有助于环境史领域，更具体地说，环境史和公共卫生史之间的联系。这项研究的结果将通过建立一个可用作教育资源的网站在哥伦比亚公布。