The construction of cancer as an object of scientific study and sanitary problem in Argentina: discourses, experimental practices and institutional initiatives, 1903-1922

This article analyzes the construction of cancer as a sanitary problem and an object of scientific inquiry in Argentina in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It considers the acquisition and circulation of foreign knowledge on the subject, the context in which the first experimental dev...

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Published inHistória, ciências, saúde--Manguinhos Vol. 21; no. 2; p. 457
Main Author Buschini, José D
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Spanish
Published Brazil 01.04.2014
Subjects
Academies and Institutes - history
Academies and Institutes - organization & administration
Animals
Argentina
Biomedical Research - history
History, 20th Century
Humans
Neoplasms
Argentina
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Summary:This article analyzes the construction of cancer as a sanitary problem and an object of scientific inquiry in Argentina in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It considers the acquisition and circulation of foreign knowledge on the subject, the context in which the first experimental developments arose, the institutional initiatives promoted by the medical profession and the way in which state authorities and civil society were enlisted to further these initiatives. There is a detailed examination of the process of creating the Instituto de Medicina Experimental, a center wholly devoted to the study and treatment of cancer, which was inaugurated in 1922, symbolically ending the first phase of constructing cancer as a problem in the country.
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ISSN:1678-4758
1678-4758
DOI:10.1590/S0104-59702014005000011