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

这是一项科学和技术研究论文改进资助，研究疟疾的历史以及在20世纪哥伦比亚控制疟疾的努力。赠款的资金将用于支付差旅费、食宿费以及一些设备费用。通过在哥伦比亚三个城市进行档案研究，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访谈，研究人员将分析这种疾病的传播及其控制是如何受到生物学以外因素的影响的，例如不断发展的经济；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，特别是在国家特定背景下实施国际项目时对战略的重新解释。这项研究有助于最近大量的研究，这些研究旨在揭示过去为应对疟疾所采取的各种策略，拉丁美洲在这方面的代表性不足，哥伦比亚几乎完全被忽视。在20世纪抗疟疾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控制工作进行批判性的历史审查，将有助于为当前关于如何处理21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现代化和文明的思想基础。第三世界。国家。它也是热带医学史的一部分，也是与帝国主义有关的科学和医学新批判性研究的一部分，而拉丁美洲在这方面一直明显缺席。这项研究也将有助于环境史领域，特别是环境史与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提供。

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.