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Ramacciotti, Karina Inés
Biernat, Carolina
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Siglo XX
Idioma
spa
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299 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
siglo XX
Abstract
This paper studies poliomyelitis through the 20th century in Argentina and falls within the scope of the social and cultural history of health and illness. Its main aim is to analyze which were the ideas, meanings, medical practices and health policies which were articulated to give an answer to this disease during said period. For this purpose, the long term history covering the cycle of this illness from its endemic and epidemic occurrence until its current phase of eradication is reconstructed.
Among other aspects, it reflects on the processes of recognition of the disease and motor disability as topics of public importance; considers the complex relations between the state and female philanthropy, and incorporates the role of mass media communication in the treatment of the epidemic cycles and the immunization campaigns. It links the way the disease was approached to other phenomena, such as the transformations within the sanitary field, the tensions between doctors, female philanthropists and ―medical assistants‖, the appearance of patients associations and new forms of activism based on certain body conditions
The first chapter, with the objective of studying the care practices aimed at the sick (mostly boys and girls whose bodies were paralyzed), it describes and compares the approaches of two philanthropic organizations which played a key role in the institutionalization of the disease: the Sociedad de Beneficencia de la Capital Federal [Charity Organization Society of the Capital Federal1] and the Asociación para la Lucha contra la Parálisis Infantil [Association for the Fight Against Child Paralysis]. The second chapter addresses the implementation of a national rehabilitation plan as a state policy and revisits the preceding scientific and legal debates. Thirdly, the meanings and metaphors attributed to the disease which appeared in political speeches and the press during the 1936, 1942, 1953 and 1956 epidemics are examined. Chapter 4 deals with the mass immunization campaigns following three large scale operations carried out in 1957, 1963 and 1971. It also considers the current disease eradication plan and the global strategy for the suspension of the oral Sabin vaccine in many countries, including Argentina. The fifth and last chapter analyzes the controversies arising from the recognition of the post-polio syndrome as a legitimate disease. Said syndrome is experienced as weakness, atrophy and muscle pain and it affects people who have suffered from polio exposing them to a new disabling situation.
This paper aims to further knowledge and understanding of past and present polio. In addition, it reflects on broader aspects, such as the processes of the social construction of disability, the gradual expansion of the contents and benefits of social citizenship, the porous and fluctuating frontiers established between the inclusion, exclusion and segregation of the disabled and the arguments and justifications which sustained them.
Among other aspects, it reflects on the processes of recognition of the disease and motor disability as topics of public importance; considers the complex relations between the state and female philanthropy, and incorporates the role of mass media communication in the treatment of the epidemic cycles and the immunization campaigns. It links the way the disease was approached to other phenomena, such as the transformations within the sanitary field, the tensions between doctors, female philanthropists and ―medical assistants‖, the appearance of patients associations and new forms of activism based on certain body conditions
The first chapter, with the objective of studying the care practices aimed at the sick (mostly boys and girls whose bodies were paralyzed), it describes and compares the approaches of two philanthropic organizations which played a key role in the institutionalization of the disease: the Sociedad de Beneficencia de la Capital Federal [Charity Organization Society of the Capital Federal1] and the Asociación para la Lucha contra la Parálisis Infantil [Association for the Fight Against Child Paralysis]. The second chapter addresses the implementation of a national rehabilitation plan as a state policy and revisits the preceding scientific and legal debates. Thirdly, the meanings and metaphors attributed to the disease which appeared in political speeches and the press during the 1936, 1942, 1953 and 1956 epidemics are examined. Chapter 4 deals with the mass immunization campaigns following three large scale operations carried out in 1957, 1963 and 1971. It also considers the current disease eradication plan and the global strategy for the suspension of the oral Sabin vaccine in many countries, including Argentina. The fifth and last chapter analyzes the controversies arising from the recognition of the post-polio syndrome as a legitimate disease. Said syndrome is experienced as weakness, atrophy and muscle pain and it affects people who have suffered from polio exposing them to a new disabling situation.
This paper aims to further knowledge and understanding of past and present polio. In addition, it reflects on broader aspects, such as the processes of the social construction of disability, the gradual expansion of the contents and benefits of social citizenship, the porous and fluctuating frontiers established between the inclusion, exclusion and segregation of the disabled and the arguments and justifications which sustained them.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales