Eric D Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 191122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric D Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric D |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6766-1626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Community Kitchens as Urban Social Infrastructure in Argentina
This study aims to assess whether social infrastructure (SI) can be a useful concept to improve our understanding of poor people’s survival strategies under conditions of ongoing social and economic crisis in Argentina. We focus specifically on community kitchens (CKs) as a core element of SI in low-income informal settlements of Greater San Miguel de Tucumán, a major metropolitan area of northwest Argentina. Based on qualitative, ethnographic re…
Multi‐Scalar Spatial Analysis of Social Determinants of Undernutrition in Schoolchildren in Tucumán, Argentina
INTRODUCTION: This study analyzes the spatial clustering and socioeconomic and demographic determinants of child undernutrition in Tucumán, Argentina. METHODS: We conducted an observational, cross-sectional study using data from over 11 000 school-aged children in Greater San Miguel de Tucumán, the largest metropolitan area in the Northwestern Greater Argentina (NGA) region. We examined undernutrition at the population level-focusing on stunting,…
Between the personal and the political
This article analyzes feelings, experiences, practices, and actions that underlie the meanings attributed to the covid-19 pandemic. Based on a case study located in the province of Tucumán (Argentina), a mixed-methods investigation was developed, interested in capturing life experiences. Discourse analysis show the resignification of life itself, the valorization of close ties, community social capital, the State and politics. From the personal t…
Entre lo personal y lo político
Este artículo analiza sentimientos, experiencias, prácticas y acciones que subyacen a los significados atribuidos a la pandemia por covid-19. A partir de un estudio de caso situado en la provincia de Tucumán (Argentina), se desarrolló una investigación mixta, interesada en captar experiencias de vida. Los discursos evidencian la resignificación de la propia vida, la valorización de los vínculos, el capital social comunitario, el Estado y la polít…
Salir Adelante
La pandemia
Se examina la gestión de Donald Trump, presidente de los EEUU, en la pandemia de covid-19
Psychological Governance and Public Policy
Response to commentary by Howard Waitzkin
We appreciate this opportunity to respond to Dr. Waitzkin’s commentary. But first, we want to provide some background on the origins of our article. We first met in Santiago in 2016, when Carter, a historical geographer with many publications on the history of public health, was in the early stages of a book project on the origins of Latin American social medicine. Meanwhile, Sánchez Delgado, a historian of science, has just completed his dissert…
A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow
In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious European source, represented by Virchow. A key to that story is that Allende was a student of Westenhöfer, a disciple of Virchow who lived in Chile three times (1908-1911, 1929-1932, and 1948-1957). B…
States of Disease
Muddying the waters
Introducing JLAG em Tradução/JLAG en Traducción
ing the fiftieth anniversary of the Conference of Latin American Geography (formerly the Conference of Latin
Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945
This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. After examining the architecture of these networks, this paper traces their influence on social and health policy in two policy domains: socia…
Population control, public health, and development in mid twentieth century Latin America
Postcolonial nation-building and health in Indonesia
I n the growing scholarship on international health in the twentieth century, Indonesia has received relatively little attention, given the size of its population (roughly 260 million people) and its impressive development trajectory. Vivek Neelakantan's new book, focusing on the public health politics of Indonesia between 1945 and 1967, shows that the Indonesian case is valuable for sharpening our understanding of how international health and de…
Pandemic
We live in an era of elevated public anxiety over global epidemics of infectious disease.Most recently our attention has been focused (fleetingly, at least) on Zika virus; before that, it was the Ebola outbreak, and a few years before that, the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.Sonia Shah's new book explains how such pandemics develop in a complex web of microbiological, ecological, politicaleconomic, and cultural factors.As in her previous book, The Fev…
Rubble
Making the Blue Zones
Migration, Acculturation, and Environmental Values
Human–environment geography and geographic research on migration have largely been treated as separate scholarly spheres. Meanwhile, even as recent immigration exerts dynamic changes on American culture, relatively little scholarly work addresses immigrants’ attitudes toward environmental issues. In this article, we address the following questions: How do Mexican immigrants perceive and understand the environment and environmental problems? How d…
Malaria control in the Tennessee Valley Authority
The Ailing City
Drainage on the Grand Prairie
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
When Sugar Ruled
God Bless General Peron
This article explores the politics of malaria eradication in Argentina during the first government of Juan D. Perón. The article develops the theme of historical convergence to understand the rapid mobilization and success of the climactic battle against malaria in Northwest Argentina. The nearly complete eradication of malaria in Argentina resulted from a combination of three factors. First, Carlos Alvarado, the director of Argentina's Malaria S…
Making the Blue Zones
Development narratives and the uses of ecology
Migration, Acculturation, and Environmental Values
Human–environment geography and geographic research on migration have largely been treated as separate scholarly spheres. Meanwhile, even as recent immigration exerts dynamic changes on American culture, relatively little scholarly work addresses immigrants’ attitudes toward environmental issues. In this article, we address the following questions: How do Mexican immigrants perceive and understand the environment and environmental problems? How d…
State visions, landscape, and disease
Population control, public health, and development in mid twentieth century Latin America
Malaria control in the Tennessee Valley Authority
Salir Adelante
Muddying the waters
Drainage on the Grand Prairie
God Bless General Peron
This article explores the politics of malaria eradication in Argentina during the first government of Juan D. Perón. The article develops the theme of historical convergence to understand the rapid mobilization and success of the climactic battle against malaria in Northwest Argentina. The nearly complete eradication of malaria in Argentina resulted from a combination of three factors. First, Carlos Alvarado, the director of Argentina's Malaria S…
A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow
In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious European source, represented by Virchow. A key to that story is that Allende was a student of Westenhöfer, a disciple of Virchow who lived in Chile three times (1908-1911, 1929-1932, and 1948-1957). B…
Development narratives and the uses of ecology
Civilizing Argentina
Reviewed by: Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State Eric D. Carter Julia Rodriguez . Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Ill. $59.95 (cloth, ISBN 10: 0-8078-2997-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2997-4), $24.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-8078-5669-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5669-7). Civilizing Argentina belongs to an important and expanding genre…
State visions, landscape, and disease
God Bless General Peron
This article explores the politics of malaria eradication in Argentina during the first government of Juan D. Perón. The article develops the theme of historical convergence to understand the rapid mobilization and success of the climactic battle against malaria in Northwest Argentina. The nearly complete eradication of malaria in Argentina resulted from a combination of three factors. First, Carlos Alvarado, the director of Argentina's Malaria S…
When Sugar Ruled
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
The Ailing City
Drainage on the Grand Prairie
Migration, Acculturation, and Environmental Values
Human–environment geography and geographic research on migration have largely been treated as separate scholarly spheres. Meanwhile, even as recent immigration exerts dynamic changes on American culture, relatively little scholarly work addresses immigrants’ attitudes toward environmental issues. In this article, we address the following questions: How do Mexican immigrants perceive and understand the environment and environmental problems? How d…
Malaria control in the Tennessee Valley Authority
Rubble
Making the Blue Zones
Pandemic
We live in an era of elevated public anxiety over global epidemics of infectious disease.Most recently our attention has been focused (fleetingly, at least) on Zika virus; before that, it was the Ebola outbreak, and a few years before that, the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.Sonia Shah's new book explains how such pandemics develop in a complex web of microbiological, ecological, politicaleconomic, and cultural factors.As in her previous book, The Fev…
Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945
This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. After examining the architecture of these networks, this paper traces their influence on social and health policy in two policy domains: socia…
Population control, public health, and development in mid twentieth century Latin America
Postcolonial nation-building and health in Indonesia
I n the growing scholarship on international health in the twentieth century, Indonesia has received relatively little attention, given the size of its population (roughly 260 million people) and its impressive development trajectory. Vivek Neelakantan's new book, focusing on the public health politics of Indonesia between 1945 and 1967, shows that the Indonesian case is valuable for sharpening our understanding of how international health and de…
States of Disease
Muddying the waters
Introducing JLAG em Tradução/JLAG en Traducción
ing the fiftieth anniversary of the Conference of Latin American Geography (formerly the Conference of Latin
Psychological Governance and Public Policy
Response to commentary by Howard Waitzkin
We appreciate this opportunity to respond to Dr. Waitzkin’s commentary. But first, we want to provide some background on the origins of our article. We first met in Santiago in 2016, when Carter, a historical geographer with many publications on the history of public health, was in the early stages of a book project on the origins of Latin American social medicine. Meanwhile, Sánchez Delgado, a historian of science, has just completed his dissert…
A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow
In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious European source, represented by Virchow. A key to that story is that Allende was a student of Westenhöfer, a disciple of Virchow who lived in Chile three times (1908-1911, 1929-1932, and 1948-1957). B…
La pandemia
Se examina la gestión de Donald Trump, presidente de los EEUU, en la pandemia de covid-19
Salir Adelante
Between the personal and the political
This article analyzes feelings, experiences, practices, and actions that underlie the meanings attributed to the covid-19 pandemic. Based on a case study located in the province of Tucumán (Argentina), a mixed-methods investigation was developed, interested in capturing life experiences. Discourse analysis show the resignification of life itself, the valorization of close ties, community social capital, the State and politics. From the personal t…
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