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Conjuring the State
The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how the service extended the reach of its broader programs across the national landscape and into domestic spaces. Delving into health conditions in the country—especially in the highlands—and efforts to combat disease, she shows how citizens’ encounters with public health officials helped make abstract ideas of state government tangible. By using public health as a window to understand social relations in a country deeply divided by region, class, and ethnicity, Conjuring the State examines the cultural, social, and political effects of the everyday practices of public health officials.
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Health in the Highlands
"In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medica...
Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador
In 1921 Matilde Hidalgo became the first woman physician to graduate from the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Hidalgo was also the first woman to vote in a national election and the first to hold public office. Author Kim Clark relates the stories of Matilde Hidalgo and other women who successfully challenged newly instituted Ecuadorian state programs in the wake of the Liberal Revolution of 1895. New laws, while they did not specifically outline women's rights, left loopholes wherein women could contest entry into education systems and certain professions and vote in elections. As Clark demonstrates, many of those who seized these opportunities were unattached women who were socially...
En busca de Thomas Reed
La primera edición de esta publicación fue realizada en 2005 por la Corporación La Candelaria, transformado hoy en el Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC). En ese entonces, los autores Alberto Saldarriaga Roa, José Alexander Pinzón Rivera y Alfonso Ortiz Crespo se embarcaron en lo que se convertiría en una apasionante búsqueda y reconstrucción de los pasos de Thomas Reed en América Latina, específicamente en Venezuela, Ecuador y Colombia, durante buena parte del siglo XIX. Reed, arquitecto al que le fueron encargadas obras tan relevantes y emblemáticas para nuestro patrimonio cultural como el Capitolio Nacional, el Panóptico de Cundinamarca (actual sede del Museo Nac...
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