TY  - JOUR 
TI  - Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, alcoholismo y salud pública en Colombia, 1910-1925
PY  - 2010
issn 0124-0064
AB  - The emergence of a modern state in Colombia and the centralization of political and administrative power in Bogotá began to take shape during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The state had a central role within the overarching modernisation discourse that sought to create a common national identity. One of the tasks assigned to the state by the national project was that of implementing policy for regulating public health and strengthening social control institutions. Such objectives should be analyzed as part of larger political centralization processes and the desire to create "ideal" citizens. Public health and sanitary campaigns implemented by government officials during this period targeted vice, immorality, illness and ignorance under the umbrella of social reform programmes. Government officials, hygienists and medical doctors continually placed emphasis on eradicating or regulating alcoholism and tuberculosis from 1910 to 1925, with the hopes of avoiding a national crisis. This paper examines how alcoholism and tuberculosis became central themes in the fears expressed by Colombia's ruling class at the time regarding the broader social decay of the nation. As intellectuals and public officials sought solutions to these ills, their explanations alluded to the disintegration of morality and values and the degenerative effects of vice, addiction and unsanitary conditions.
KW  - Ciencias sociales
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Medicina social
KW  - Salud pública
KW  - Alcoholismo
KW  - Tuberculosis
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Public health
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Political science
KW  - Administración pública
KW  - Public administration
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78382
ER  -