title: Health and productivity? On the development of an "economic" analytics of the relationship between work and health (Argentina, 1900-1955).
abstract: This article seeks to demonstrate that the economic rationalization in health that characterizes the present, although possessing unique features, is inscribed within a longer historical process. Between 1900 and 1955, an "economic analytics" of the relationship between health and work was developed in Argentina, structured around the following focal points: reflections on the "price of a man"; thought that framed social medicine within the "human economy" program; the discourse of healthful and efficient living; the calculations of factory doctors and the conformation of an economic and utilitarian discourse within occupational medicine; and, finally, debates on productivity. These five central concepts define the emergence of a particular problematization regarding worker health and, in turn, raise questions about the relationship between capitalism, liberalism and biopower in occidental societies.
authors.affiliation: Lawyer. Doctor in Social Sciences. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Researcher, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. vhaidar@fcjs.unl.edu.ar
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Haidar
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D030861:Capitalism; D004526:Efficiency; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000191:economics*; D011057:Politics
keywords: Occupational Health; Economics; History; Argentina