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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Mirta Zaida Lobato, editor. Política, médicos y enfermedades: Lecturas de historia de la salud in la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. 1996. Pp. 246.

This is one of the very few works that tackles the history of medicine and public health in Argentina. The field itself has had only a brief existence, and modern treatments range in approaches from the sociological perspectives of Jorge Balán to the historical and gendered focus of Donna J. Guy. Some of the more intriguing contributions are highlighted in this review. 1

In a fine introduction, Mirta Zaida Lobato presents the study of medicine and the medical profession in the context of the "social question," which is closely intertwined with the development of the state. Regulation, she reminds us, goes hand in hand with increasing social complexity: as the corps of medical professionals increases and diversifies, so does the state's role as regulatory overseer. The state is not seen as an independent agent but rather as a reflection of the direct involvement by the medical professionals themselves into the important public health and social development issues of the day. In Argentina, this involvement included the responses of socialist reformers, Catholic activists, and even anarchists. . . .

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