HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF LATIN AMERICA

This course is meant for students who have chosen the track of study “Americas” in the Master Degree Program in Comparative International Relations and “Iberistica” in the Master Degree Program in European, American and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures. It tries to analyze the Latin American world from a political and cultural perspective, collaborating in the construction of specific historical skills for the students. Specifically, it intend to offer a glance on the cultural process that participated in the construction, rebuilding and invention of the Nation States, on the public policies in the subcontinent and on the different facets of the Latin American identity. In this way, the course seeks to broaden the student skills in the analysis of the transformations in the Latin American intellectual debate in the last two centuries, with regard to the relationship among disease, health policies, social control and eugenics in the dynamics of change and conservation in the Latin American politics.

- general knowledge about the last two Centuries Latin American Intellectual debate (political power and social hygiene movement);
- 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.

Basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History

1. Historiography about disease, epidemics and public health in Latin America
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

To the attendants:
(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.

To ALL students:
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%);

The classes will be carried out with frontal lectures, seminars with oral presentation, texts and documents lecture laboratory, a commented screening of a movie related with the themes discussed in the course.

Italian

Non attendant students are invited to contact the professor for any questions concerning the course and the final exam.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development