Viruelas, mercantilismo e higiene pública: análisis sociohistórico del desarrollo de la higiene pública, de las políticas estatales en los estados mercantilistas europeos y su influencia en las epidemias de viruela de 1782-1783 y 1801-1802 en Santafé, Nuevo Reino de Granada.
Thesis
The main objective of this research is to describe how the different power structures of the European mercantilist states of the 18th and early 19th centuries influenced the management of Public Hygiene, in the particular case of the smallpox epidemics of 1782-1783 and 1801-1802, in the city of Santafe, in the New Kingdom of Granada. As specific objectives, it seeks to carry out a historical tour of the emergence of Public Hygiene as a discipline; describe the economic-political, philosophical and scientific processes of the European mercantilist states of the 18th and early 19th centuries; and, describe the methods of power used by European States in these processes. This socio-historical research consisted of reviewing, ordering and articulating various contributions from the existing literature (secondary bibliography) on the topic, complementing it with some edited and published primary sources (unpublished primary archival sources were not used), with the aim of in order to develop a general and integrated conceptual framework on the topic.
