Session Abstract

This two-session workshop examines the interplay of scientific knowledge, race, and public health in Latin America in the twentieth century. With case studies on Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, this workshop explores the ways in which public health policies and campaigns, expressive of state-building processes influenced by broader transnational attempts to ‘regulate the social’, at once reflected and in turn reproduced racialized understandings and practices. Part 1 focuses on the Andes, while part II looks at Argentina, Chile and Mexico.