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      Médicos, prostitución y enfermedades venéreas en Colombia (1886-1951) Translated title: Physicians, prostitution, and venereal disease in Colombia (1886-1951)

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          Este trabajo examina la lucha del cuerpo médico colombiano contra las enfermedades 'venéreas' entre 1886 y 1951. En este período, Colombia sufrió procesos de urbanización, crecimiento de población, nacimiento de la industria y aparición de una clase media y de un proletariado urbano. Los médicos encontraron una conexión estrecha entre la difusión del contagio de la sífilis y la gonorrea, y el aumento del ejercicio de la prostitución en las ciudades. A finales del siglo XIX, los médicos y los organismos de higiene asumieron la prostitución como inevitable; en 1907 consiguieron reglamentarla y fundaron dispensarios para aplicar los tratamientos de mercurio y compuestos arsenicales. Hacia los años 1930 y 1940, la curación de las enfermedades venéreas se asumió como un deber estatal de defensa de la raza y a favor de la civilización y del progreso. Hacia 1950, el uso eficaz de la penicilina hizo que la cuestión de la prostitución se volviera a plantear en términos más morales y estéticos, y se impuso la abolición de las normas que regulaban su ejercicio, por lo menos en Bogotá.

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          The article examines the Colombian medical field's fight against so-called venereal diseases between 1886 and 1951, a period when the country was undergoing processes of urbanization, population growth, and the emergence both of industry as well as of a middle class and an urban proletariat. Physicians found a close connection between the spread of syphilis and gonorrhea and the rise of prostitution in cities. At the close of the 19th century, doctors and public health bodies assumed prostitution was inevitable. In 1907 they managed to have it legalized and they opened clinics to dispense mercury therapy and treatment with arsenic compounds. Starting in the 1930s and 1940s, treatment of venereal diseases was viewed as the State's duty, necessary to protect "la raza" and safeguard progress and civilization. As of 1950, the efficient use of penicillin once again caused the question of prostitution to be posed in more moral and aesthetic terms and brought an end to the regulations governing its practice, at least in Bogota.

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          hcsm
          História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
          Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos
          Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro )
          1678-4758
          2002
          : 9
          : suppl
          : 161-186
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia
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          S0104-59702002000400008
          10.1590/S0104-59702002000400008
          20adf515-d118-4efd-be7c-f63f82ebbf5a

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          HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

          Philosophy of science
          Colombia,physicians,prostitution,syphilis,gonorrhea,médicos,prostitución,sífilis,gonorrea,siglos XIX y XX

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