Title
Leishmaniases of the new world from a historical and global perspective, from the 1930s to the 1960s
Other title
Leishmanioses do novo mundo numa perspectiva histórica e global, dos anos 1930 aos 1960
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Publisher(s)
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
Abstract
The first autochthonous cases of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in the Americas were described in 1909, but visceral leishmaniasis only erupted as a public health problem in the region in 1934. Today Brazil is the country with the most cases of American tegumentary leishmaniasis, and alongside India has the highest incidence of visceral leishmaniasis. Knowledge production and efforts to control these diseases have mobilized health professionals, government agencies and institutions, international agencies, and rural and urban populations. My research addresses the exchange and cooperation networks they established, and uncertainties and controversial aspects when notable changes were made in the approach to the New World leishmaniases.
Start page
95
End page
122
Volume
27
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091598064
PubMed ID
Source
Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
ISSN of the container
0104-5970
Sponsor(s)
In 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis and exacerbation of the Cold War, a comprehensive study on tropical diseases and the resources for their study and control was completed in the United States.24 The study, which was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, had support from the most important American agencies (the Office of the Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health, US Public Health Service, and the Rockefeller Foundation). Its Consultant Committee, chaired by Albert B. Sabin, was a team of heavyweights that brought together health, industry, and business. The arguments justifying the relevance of the study clearly show concern with preserving a power with imperial ambitions from the dangers that threatened it: decolonization movements, revolutions, and communism.
This research had funding from Funda??o Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) through Programa Cientista do Nosso Estado, call n.26/2014.
4 The Commission included three researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Aristides Marques da Cunha, Gustavo de Oliveira Castro, Leoberto de Castro Ferreira, and the Argentine Cecílio Romaña. Evandro Chagas had financial support from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Brazilian businessman, Guilherme Guinle. Evandro Chagas’s relationship with these sponsors of his activities is analyzed in Barreto (2012).
This research had funding from Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) through Programa Cientista do Nosso Estado, call n.26/2014.
Sources of information:
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