[Spanish flu and coronavirus in Argentina: reading the past and understanding the present].

This article compares the scenarios generated in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and covid-19 in Argentina. It analyzes governmental policies and structural imbalances in the earlier pandemic based on case studies of the city of Buenos Aires and the province of Salta. It then studies those same topics for the covid-19 pandemic.

Miracle cures: advertisements for various medications in the Santa Fe press, Argentina (1890 -1918).

In the late nineteenth century, as in other regions of Argentina and Latin America, the Santa Fe press featured a growing number of offers of health products such as tonics, pills and syrups. Aimed at a lay audience, these claimed to cure a series of conditions defined as belonging to "modern life." This article analyzes the discursive dimension of the advertisements printed between 1890 and 1918: how they organized meanings associated with these conditions, an issue that is inscribed within a broad line of research aimed at analyzing social representations of health and disease, and how they participated in the different social spheres in the constitution of modern-day Argentina.

[Trends in mortality from breast cancer in Córdoba, Argentina, 1986-2011: some socio-historical interpretations].

Objective: Analyze and interpret trends in mortality from breast cancer in recent decades in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, relative to demographic changes and the sociopolitical context.

Methods: Raw, standardized (direct method), and age-specific mortality from breast cancer was calculated for 1986-2011 in Córdoba. Using RiskDiff® software, variations in the 1986 to 2011 raw rates were analyzed.

[Tuberculosis and phthisiophobia in Argentina: discourses and conflicts in the construction of the Ascochinga sanitorium, 1925].

This article aims to analyze the positions and arguments of various state and social actors around the construction by the "Argentine Medical Establishmen" company of a sanatorium for attending to tuberculosis sufferers in the town of Ascochinga, Córdoba, Argentina in 1925. It examines the views on tuberculosis of distinct actors in Córdoba province, beginning with Ascochinga's neighbors, business owners and the President of the Hygiene Council of the province, the President of the Climatology and Climatherapy Commission and the Public Prosecutor, and their arguments for and against the construction of the sanatorium. Although several studies have been performed on the construction and organization of various facilities to house tuberculosis patients, there has been no analysis of the conflicts that the construction generated in the society, as part of the development of institutions for attending to tuberculosis patients.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Argentina during the twentieth century].

The aim of this article is to provide an analysis of the mortality curve for tuberculosis in Argentina throughout the twentieth century, from 1911 to 2007. Using data from various official sources, the mortality rate is divided into historical phases and sub-periods, in order to show how the behavior of tuberculosis mortality depended on the historical moment. Thus, the progress of the disease is linked to the methods that were developed to combat it.

Food preferences and their "decision contexts" as predictors of dietary pattern.

The Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is the usual method for estimating dietary intake in epidemiological studies. However, investigations focused only on nutrient and food intake does not show the reason why, where or how people choose certain foods and reject others. Food preference and its choosing decision helps to explain more accurately why people eat certain foods and how this freedom of choice is implemented.

[The flu far and near: comparing the 1918 and 2009 pandemics].

In this debate, Latin American historians compare the 1918-1919 flu pandemic with the one sweeping the continent in 2009, focusing especially on the experiences in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. They analyze the strategies adopted on both occasions, above all isolation measures, port and airport surveillance, and urban interventions. Comparisons are drawn between the actions of federal and local governments, positions taken by doctors and the media, and people's behavior, particularly regarding fear and death.

[Institutions and conflicts in tuberculosis teaching in Córdoba, 1920-1955].

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the process of institutionalizing tuberculosis research and teaching in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Cordoba. The province of Cordoba, especially the capital and the northwestern region, was considered an area suitable for climatic cure. This caused an important flow of migration of infected people and at the same time an increasing interest of the argentine physicians in studying this disease.

[The cholera epidemics in Córdoba as seen through the press: the supply of preservatives and cures during the 1867-1868 epidemic].

Disease is always represented a moment of crisis for individuals and societies. When death brought by disease hangs heavy over societies, they are lead to develop strategies to prevent and cure it. Epidemics, especially cholera epidemics, have had a strong impact on Argentine society, especially on Cordoba residents, because the first cholera outbreak was highly devastating in both demographic and social terms.

[The shaping of the Argentina health system: the case of Cordoba province, 1917-1926].

This article describes the construction of the health system in Cordoba province between the end of the 19th century and the second half of the 1920s, placing particular emphasis in the national institutions and private charity associations created during this period. The hypothesis of this article is that the Cordoba health system was developed from the initiative of private charity associations and at the level of the nation or municipality, whereas the provincial state had a limited role. These developments occurred despite the hegemony of a liberal discourse that reinforced the role of the state as the main agent in public health care.