Liberating the people from their “loathsome practices:” public health and “silent racism” in post-revolutionary Bolivia

Abstract: After the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) took power in the 1952 National Revolution, the party expanded rural public health programs to address what early twentieth-century elites called the “Indian problem:” the idea that indigenous culture was an impediment to Bolivia’s mod...

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Published in:História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Main Author: Nicole L. Pacino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
Bolivia
mestizaje
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario
public health
race/ethnicity
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702017000401107&lng=en&tlng=en

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