HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF LATIN AMERICA
- Academic year
- 2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA E ISTITUZIONI DELL'AMERICA LATINA
- Course code
- LM0670 (AF:334545 AR:176214)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- SPS/05
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
- knowledge of the change process intervened in Latin American about the relation between politics and public health since the XIXth Century, regarding historical process and conceptual transformations;
- knowledge of the publich health projects that had fostered the Latin American National States debate and their connections with the birth, diffusion and sunset contexts;
- awareness about the relationship among disease, health policies, social control and eugenics in the dynamics of change and conservation in the Latin American politics;
- capacity to analyze critically the Contemporary Latin American politics building, considering his historical process;
- ability to identify the dynamics that had involved debate about the Latin American political projects;
- capacity to adopt the conceptual instruments studied in class in the Latin American (in a synchronic and diachronic way) and in the comprehension of the contemporary politics reality;
- know to propose and argue autonomously political-economic and social-cultural actions, considering the elements of complexity present in the Latin American realty.
Pre-requirements
Contents
2. Nation-States, Science and medicine in the 19th Century
3. Public hygiene and society between 19th and 20th centuries
4. Urban spaces and social control
5. Eugenic policies
6. Public Health and Politics in the 20th Century
Referral texts
(basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History)
Suggested bibliography will be provided in the first class.
To the NON attendants:
(basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History)
(Mandatory)
ARMUS, Diego. Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870-1970. Buenos Aires: Lugar Editorial, 2005.
AND
You have to choose two of these articles:
- PARKER, David S. “Civilizando la ciudad de los Reyes: higiene y vivienda en Lima, 1890-1920”. In ARMUS, Diego. Entre médicos y curanderos: cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma, ago. 2002. pp.105-150.
- VALLEJO, Gustavo. Males y Remedios de la Ciudad Moderna: perspectivas ambientales de la eugenesia de entreguerras. Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Madrid, v. 59, n.1, enerojunio 2007, pp. 203-238. Available online: http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/viewArticle/222 Last Accessed: August 14th 2020.
- STERN, Alexandra M. Mestizofilia, biotipología y eugenesia en el México posrevolucionario: hacia una historia de la ciencia y del Estado, 1920-1960. Relaciones. Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, Zamora, México, v. XXI, n. 81, p. 57-95, 2000. Available online: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=13708104 Last Accessed: August 14th 2020.
AND
You have to choose two of these articles:
- RAMACCIOTTI, Karina Inés. Las sombras de la política sanitaria durante el Peronismo: los brotes epidémicos en Buenos Aires. Asclepio. Revista de la medicina y de la Ciencia, Madrid, v. LVIII, n.2, jul.dic. 2006, pp.115-138. Available online: http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/view/11/11 Last Accessed: August 14th 2020.
- CARRILLO, Ana María. Salud pública y poder en México durante el Cardenismo, 1934-1940. Dynamis. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, Granada, España, v. 25, 2005, pp.145-178. Available online: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/114016 Last Accessed: August 14th 2020.
- CHAPLE, Enrique Beldarraín. Cambio y Revolución: el surgimiento del Sistema Nacional Único de Salud en Cuba, 1959-1970. Dynamis. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, Granada, España, v. 25, 2005, pp.257-278. Available online: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/114041 Last Accessed: August 14th 2020.
Assessment methods
The evaluation will consist in a written (50%) and an oral (50%)exams, always with the target to show his or her capacity to analyze the different aspects of the Latin America society (particularly heatlh policies, collective health, social control and eugenic) presented in the reference texts.
To the attendants (student choice):
1. participation in the seminaries that take part of the course formation, as others formative activities (40%).
2. one research paper (4000 words), topics should be defined in consultation with the Professor (40%), to analyse a topic of the class discussions;
3. oral Exam, in which the student will have to show his or her capacity to analyze the different aspects of the Latin America society presented in the classes and in the reference texts (20%);
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Further information
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