Silicosis or miner's consumption in Colombia, 1910-1960

Published 1 April 2011

Historiador. Magíster en Historia. Integrante del grupo de investigación Producción,Circulación y Apropiación de Saberes (PROCIRCAS). Doctorando en Historia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Becario de la Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) , Historiador. Doctor en Enseñanza y Difusión de la Ciencias y las Técnicas. Profesor asociado del Departamento de Estudios Filosóficos, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín, Colombia. Director del grupo de investigación Producción, Circulación y Apropiación de Saberes (PROCIRCAS)

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Keywords:

Silicosis, Tuberculosis, Occupational Diseases, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Medicine, History, Colombia

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Abstract

Silicosis is a disease associated with mining work, whose importance was first recognized in the medical, economic and legal fields in the 1930s. It has become an important object of historical study for both social and occupational medicine. Through the history of silicosis it has been possible to study the adoption of the concept of "occupational disease" and the birth of occupational medicine in Colombia. This process is analyzed in the article through a reading of medical publications from the first half of the twentieth century regarding silicosis in Colombian mining