INVESTIGADORES
PODGORNY Irina
artículos
Título:
?PRE-COLUMBIAN MOULAGES? HUACOS, MUMMIES, AND PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY OVER PRECOLUMBIAN DISEASES, 1894-1910
Autor/es:
FARRO MÁXIMO,; IRINA PODGORNY
Revista:
Medicina nei secoli
Editorial:
La Sapienza
Referencias:
Lugar: Roma; Año: 2015 vol. 27 p. 631 - 654
Resumen:
By the late nineteenth century an international controversy arose referredto the probable existence of certain diseases such as leprosy, syphilis andlupus in pre-Columbian America. Led by the American physician AlbertSidney Ashmead (1850-1911), it brought together scholars from Europeand the Americas. In this context, certain types of Peruvian archaeologicalpottery and ?mummies,? along with series of photographs illustrating theeffects of these diseases in contemporary patients, met a prominent role ascomparative evidence. In this article we analyze how this type of collectionswere used as evidence in the debates about pathologies of the past, an issuethat from a historical standpoint have received considerably little attention.
