[Rhetoric of quantification: tuberculosis, statistics and the labor world in Colombia, 1916-1946].
This article examines the application of tuberculosis statistics in the Colombian medical discourse, the gap between these statistics and data officially published, as well as the relationship between the quantitative dynamics, the anti-tuberculosis campaign and the objectivation of tuberculosis in labor world in Colombia over the period ranging from the beginning of the campaign (1916) to the inclusion of tuberculosis in the list of professional diseases (1946). It also analyzes the critical role that labor statistics played in the first developments of the Colombian social security system and in the definition of professional diseases. These historical processes were studied according to its insertion in the international context.
Medellín , Colombia, vestradao@yahoo.com, Doctora en Historia. Carrera 41, n.14-27. 050021 - Medellín - Colombia. vestradao@yahoo.com.
Victoria
V
Estrada Orrego
Medellín , Colombia, oscargallovelez@gmail.com, Doctor en História. Carrera 79C, n.45-35, bloque 10, apto 202. 050031 - Medellín - Colombia. oscargallovelez@gmail.com.
Oscar
O
Gallo
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín , Colombia, jmarquez@unal.edu.co, Profesor, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas/Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Calle 59A, n.63-20, ofic. 43-404. 050034 - Medellín - Colombia. jmarquez@unal.edu.co.
Jorge
J
Márquez Valderrama
D003105:Colombia / Q000453:epidemiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009790:Occupations / Q000266:history* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history*