Abstract

ORTEGA, Luis Felipe. The control of tuberculosis in Bucaramanga from the regulation of the physical space (1916-1936). Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.2, pp.187-218.  Epub Dec 02, 2022. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v27n2-2022008.

This article analyzes the public policies and discourses associated with the treatment and prevention of pulmonary tuberculosis in public and private spaces in the city of Bucaramanga between 1916 and 1936. It is intended to demonstrate the conceptions about the disease and the need to control it proposed by physicians, lawyers, and governors. Explaining that the control was necessary because of the material and spatial conditions of the city, which responded to a search for the prevention of unhygienic behaviors and conditioning spaces where tuberculosis had a relevant presence. In the same way, the incidence of the discourses about the disease in the processes of urban modernization is also recognized. It is shown that in Bucaramanga crowded physical spaces were concentrated such as schools, churches, poor housing canteens, and especially the Prison, which were the main sources of the spread of this disease. Also were the spaces that were the object of intervention of policies that sought to achieve Urban Hygiene.

Keywords : Disease control; Environmental health; Prisons; Housing, Urban planning..

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