The Colombian Healthy Child Contest: in search of Latin America’s “ideal child” in the 1930s
Abstract This article analyzes healthy child contests as a medical and socio-political strategy implemented in Latin America to protect childhood, thus ensuring the future of the “race” and the nation. These contests blended degeneration, racial theories, and state interventionism and gained momentu...
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| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2023-04-01
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| Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702023000100203&lng=en&tlng=en |