Bibliographic citations
Pasco, C., (2021). Avances en la detección, diagnóstico, tratamiento y prevención del cáncer de cuello uterino en el Perú (1955-1970) a partir de la interpretación de la Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia [Tesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/17925
Pasco, C., Avances en la detección, diagnóstico, tratamiento y prevención del cáncer de cuello uterino en el Perú (1955-1970) a partir de la interpretación de la Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia [Tesis]. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/17925
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title = "Avances en la detección, diagnóstico, tratamiento y prevención del cáncer de cuello uterino en el Perú (1955-1970) a partir de la interpretación de la Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia",
author = "Pasco Alvarez, Carol Paola",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2021"
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This research develops the history of the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer, through which different currents of great importance in contemporary historiography intersect: the history of gender, the history of science, the history of health and history social. Towards the decade of the 50s, medical science begins to question the woman’s body, various investigations and interpretations arise to understand medical methods that until then have not been effective in improving female diseases, such as cervical cancer. In this sense, gynecology, supported by other fields of science have generated important achievements for the detection of this diseases, but they could not identify what was causing it. On the other hand, it is posible to identify the social and economic conditions of the patients whom the doctors involved to carry out diagnoses and relevant studies for this specialty. These situations link us to the social aspect of women and their ailments since they are used as indicators of classification of the patient, which helps us to also reconstruct of a history of a social nature and how women were treated in the eyes of medical science. In order to develop these topics, we use main sources such as the articles of the Gynecology and Obstetrics journal, which show the progress made on the study of cancerous tumors identified with cervical cancer, the second disease that most attacks women in Peru, and in Latin America, and that from the beginning of the 20th Century begins to gain notoriety due to the methods that are discovered to control it in a proper treatment, detection and subsequent prevention of the disease. Therefore, using these medical articles as primary sources gives us the opportunity to get closer to the history of the fight against cancer. It is also analyzed, the little information on the periodic consultations that women had to carry out to comply with medical check-ups related to their genital organs and reproductive systems, they did not attend exclusively for a screening test for cervical and or uterine anomalies. The detection and prevention campaign was carried out together with the family planning and prenatal care programs. Therefore, the objectives of this study will be dedicated to interpreting how the methods that started the cervical cancer prevention and detection campaigns were proposed and practiced. To make known what were the main methods in the treatment, cure and prevention of this disease in Peru and that both private and State institutions manage to unity efforts to spread and l health organization against this disease.
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