Eugenic Ideas and the Foundation of The Institute of Social Medicine

Authors

  • Walter Mendoza de Souza Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima, Perú
  • Oscar Martínez Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v60i1.4513

Keywords:

Social Medicine, Public Health, Peru, Eugenics

Abstract

Here we discuss about the influence of eugenic ideas on the foundation and performance of the Faculty of Medicine Institute of Social Medicine (1927). Academic publications from 1910 to 1950, mainly those of Dr. Carlos Enrique Paz Soldan, support our analysis. In the first half of this century, some concepts were developed in the setting of Social Medicine at the Institute. These concepts result in the basis of the emerging public health. Eugenic ideas have arrived beginning the twentieth century, when the policy and intellectual scene of "aristocratic republic" enhanced their development. Social health ideas were appearing, focusing on preventive actions at population-level, in an attempt to avoid Peruvian health impairment and "ethnic degeneration". As a result, several control measures were instaured, giving rise to the need of an institution that was responsible for these measures.

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Published

1999-03-15

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (1999)

Section

Tema de Debate

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Copyright (c) 1999 Walter Mendoza de Souza, Oscar Martínez

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Mendoza de Souza W, Martínez O. Eugenic Ideas and the Foundation of The Institute of Social Medicine. An Fac med [Internet]. 1999 Mar. 15 [cited 2024 Jul. 17];60(1):55-60. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/4513