Para cuidar un ser que apenas se bosqueja en las entrañas de lo desconocido”. Surgimiento de la puericultura en Colombia en la primera mitad del siglo XX”
Thesis
Making use of documentary sources produced in Colombia between 1905 and 1948 , the objective of this research is to introduce the reader to the emergence of one of the practices used by doctors and hygienists , with which sought to fight infant mortality educating the Colombian population on the care, development and feeding of children , and the protection of women in the first half of the twentieth century.