Raúl Necochea López
Biographic Data
| ID | 527362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl Necochea López |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl Necochea |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6242-5130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine
The Unruly Endurance of Condurango in Global Cancer Care
The trajectory of condurango, an Andean vine, included a meteoric global rise in the 1860s as a cancer specific, a fall from grace, an enduring phase as a cancer adjuvant, and a return to various national pharmacopeias as a stomachic, all the while continuing to elicit laments from clinicians who insisted into the 1920s that the vine’s anti-cancer properties never got a fair trial. This article contextualizes condurango’s unsettled relevance by h…
Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
Healer Edelmira Salazar de Guzmán went to considerable lengths to demonstrate her skill as a cancer specialist in 1920s Bogotá. Her satisfied patients’ testimonials certified by Colombian authorities and her astute interpretations of Colombia's health regulations portray her as someone who could effectively compete with medical experts in the complex and rapidly changing field of cancer care. Salazar's story sheds light on a popular attitude towa…
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers: Notes of Encouragement and Caution
Represented: Black Alumni at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1960s–1970s
In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
Eric D. Carter succeeds with this ambitious history of social medicine in Latin America. Over seven chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, we become reacquainted with characters who have animated institutions and debates with local and global reach, including Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán, Eduardo Cruz-Coke, Salvador Allende, Juan Lazarte, and Josué de Castro. The story, however, is not so much powered by the people whom it features as by the…
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education
Development as Gender Equity: Women's Advocacy and Cancer Control at the Pan-American Health Organization, 1980–2000
Women's advocates’ strategies to influence international health agencies offer a new way to think about development. This article deals with the vibrant growth of women's health initiatives at the Pan-American Health Organization during Latin America's financially turbulent years from the 1980s through the 1990s. The multi-faceted nature of this process was especially apparent in the case of cervical cancer, the illness that launched the organiza…
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s
The rise and fall of Lima’s red-light district, Huatica, between 1928 and 1956 anchors a story that connects the mid-nineteenth century and the present day about the uneasy coexistence of rationales to regulate and abolish prostitution. Over six crisply argued chapters, bookended by an introduction and a short conclusion section, The Sexual Question shows how multiple contributors to these rationales attempted to influence health policymaking, in…
The Anti-Cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru
Peru's first cancer control public outreach scheme started in the 1910s, but ground to a standstill as it attained official governmental recognition in 1926 as the Liga Anti-Cancerosa (LAC). This paper explains the developments leading to that earliest effort to enlist a coalition of State health agencies, physicians, and lay people in a campaign to publicize early signs of this disease, as well as the medical and political reasons for and implic…
Mexico’s health diplomacy and the Ventanilla de Salud program
Arresting Leprosy: Therapeutic Outcomes Besides Cure
This essay focuses on the use of the concept of “arrest” in Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in the United States in the early to middle part of the 20th century, as well as the transformations the concept underwent with the arrival of sulfone drugs and the implications of these changes for patients and public health officers. An “arrest” was a therapeutic outcome characterized by a long course of treatment, noncontagiousness, a very small chance of re…
Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
The premise of this book, that publics in industrialized nations have overlooked Cuban medical internationalism, is indisputable. To correct this, John Kirk details the proactive Cuban presence in the aftermath of environmental catastrophes in developing nations, the country's vast medical pedagogical reach, and its robust partnerships in specific projects, such as biotechnology and eye surgery provision. Kirk objects to the labeling of Cuba's me…
Aborto, abandono, y la muerte de Augusta García Platas en Ayacucho, Perú, 1946
Augusta García Platas murió tras un aborto clandestino en Ayacucho en 1946. Este ensayo, basado en materiales del Archivo Histórico de Ayacucho, da cuenta del proceso criminal que se abrió para determinar los responsables de su muerte. A pesar de que sindicaron a ciertos individuos como culpables directos de provocar el aborto, las autoridades judiciales consideraban que la causa de fondo de la muerte de la joven había sido el abandono por parte …
Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Gambling on the Protestants: The Pathfinder Fund and Birth Control in Peru, 1958–1965
Among the agencies involved in population control activities in the mid-twentieth century, none scored as many early victories in Latin America as did the Pathfinder Fund, founded by Procter & Gamble scion Clarence Gamble. This article analyzes a style in the delivery of family planning assistance in the developing world through the work of the Pathfinder Fund in Peru, the organization’s hub in South America, and shows how Pathfinder personnel co…
Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to the History of Health and Medicine in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century
This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of databases to identify relevant historiographical sources from across the Americas, the authors focus on a range of subjects that have substantially engaged contemporary historians while opening up still more research avenues. These include the health of diverse populat…
Anticonceptivos en el Sur, Seguridad Nacional en el Norte
This essay presents the main arguments of the National Security Study Memorandum 200, developed in 1974 by the Office of the Secretary of State of the United States. This document, entitled Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests, reveals the steps in family planning that the U.S. government would take to reduce population growth rates in less developed countries, particularly those that received aid f…
Demographic Knowledge and Nation‐Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940
Demografisches Wissen und ‘Nation‐Building’: Der peruanische Zensus von 1940. Die Demografen, die 1940 die peruanische Volkszählung organisierten, stellten die zunehmende ethnische Heterogenität Perus als Zeichen aufbrechender kultureller Grenzen und als Symbol einer tragfähigen peruanischen Identität dar. Diese besondere demografische Dynamik war ihrer Ansicht nach ein Motor der nationalen Entwicklung. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die verschiedenen…
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar y los inicios de la anticoncepción en el Perú (1967-1975)
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar fue la organización de mayor importancia en cuanto a la provisión de anticonceptivos en el Perú entre fines de la década de 1960 e inicios de la siguiente. Este artículo analiza los orígenes y trayectoria de dicha institución, que vio la luz gracias a la confluencia de la preocupación de entidades extranjeras por el crecimiento demográfico en países en vías de desarrollo durante el periodo de la Guerra…
Priests and Pills: Catholic Family Planning in Peru, 1967-1976
The Catholic Church of Peru supported the use of oral contraceptives between 1967 and 1976, believing that doctrine was compatible with controlling one's fertility. Yet the church did not treat fertility control only as a means to limit births or as an individual prerogative. Rather, it framed distribution of the pill within an education plan to promote the duties of responsible parenting. Joseph Kerrins, a U.S. Catholic physician, began the prog…
Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to the History of Health and Medicine in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century
This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of databases to identify relevant historiographical sources from across the Americas, the authors focus on a range of subjects that have substantially engaged contemporary historians while opening up still more research avenues. These include the health of diverse populat…
Priests and Pills: Catholic Family Planning in Peru, 1967-1976
The Catholic Church of Peru supported the use of oral contraceptives between 1967 and 1976, believing that doctrine was compatible with controlling one's fertility. Yet the church did not treat fertility control only as a means to limit births or as an individual prerogative. Rather, it framed distribution of the pill within an education plan to promote the duties of responsible parenting. Joseph Kerrins, a U.S. Catholic physician, began the prog…
The Anti-Cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru
Peru's first cancer control public outreach scheme started in the 1910s, but ground to a standstill as it attained official governmental recognition in 1926 as the Liga Anti-Cancerosa (LAC). This paper explains the developments leading to that earliest effort to enlist a coalition of State health agencies, physicians, and lay people in a campaign to publicize early signs of this disease, as well as the medical and political reasons for and implic…
Mexico’s health diplomacy and the Ventanilla de Salud program
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar y los inicios de la anticoncepción en el Perú (1967-1975)
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar fue la organización de mayor importancia en cuanto a la provisión de anticonceptivos en el Perú entre fines de la década de 1960 e inicios de la siguiente. Este artículo analiza los orígenes y trayectoria de dicha institución, que vio la luz gracias a la confluencia de la preocupación de entidades extranjeras por el crecimiento demográfico en países en vías de desarrollo durante el periodo de la Guerra…
Aborto, abandono, y la muerte de Augusta García Platas en Ayacucho, Perú, 1946
Augusta García Platas murió tras un aborto clandestino en Ayacucho en 1946. Este ensayo, basado en materiales del Archivo Histórico de Ayacucho, da cuenta del proceso criminal que se abrió para determinar los responsables de su muerte. A pesar de que sindicaron a ciertos individuos como culpables directos de provocar el aborto, las autoridades judiciales consideraban que la causa de fondo de la muerte de la joven había sido el abandono por parte …
Priests and Pills: Catholic Family Planning in Peru, 1967-1976
The Catholic Church of Peru supported the use of oral contraceptives between 1967 and 1976, believing that doctrine was compatible with controlling one's fertility. Yet the church did not treat fertility control only as a means to limit births or as an individual prerogative. Rather, it framed distribution of the pill within an education plan to promote the duties of responsible parenting. Joseph Kerrins, a U.S. Catholic physician, began the prog…
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar y los inicios de la anticoncepción en el Perú (1967-1975)
La Asociación Peruana de Protección Familiar fue la organización de mayor importancia en cuanto a la provisión de anticonceptivos en el Perú entre fines de la década de 1960 e inicios de la siguiente. Este artículo analiza los orígenes y trayectoria de dicha institución, que vio la luz gracias a la confluencia de la preocupación de entidades extranjeras por el crecimiento demográfico en países en vías de desarrollo durante el periodo de la Guerra…
Anticonceptivos en el Sur, Seguridad Nacional en el Norte
This essay presents the main arguments of the National Security Study Memorandum 200, developed in 1974 by the Office of the Secretary of State of the United States. This document, entitled Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests, reveals the steps in family planning that the U.S. government would take to reduce population growth rates in less developed countries, particularly those that received aid f…
Demographic Knowledge and Nation‐Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940
Demografisches Wissen und ‘Nation‐Building’: Der peruanische Zensus von 1940. Die Demografen, die 1940 die peruanische Volkszählung organisierten, stellten die zunehmende ethnische Heterogenität Perus als Zeichen aufbrechender kultureller Grenzen und als Symbol einer tragfähigen peruanischen Identität dar. Diese besondere demografische Dynamik war ihrer Ansicht nach ein Motor der nationalen Entwicklung. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die verschiedenen…
Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to the History of Health and Medicine in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century
This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of databases to identify relevant historiographical sources from across the Americas, the authors focus on a range of subjects that have substantially engaged contemporary historians while opening up still more research avenues. These include the health of diverse populat…
Gambling on the Protestants: The Pathfinder Fund and Birth Control in Peru, 1958–1965
Among the agencies involved in population control activities in the mid-twentieth century, none scored as many early victories in Latin America as did the Pathfinder Fund, founded by Procter & Gamble scion Clarence Gamble. This article analyzes a style in the delivery of family planning assistance in the developing world through the work of the Pathfinder Fund in Peru, the organization’s hub in South America, and shows how Pathfinder personnel co…
Aborto, abandono, y la muerte de Augusta García Platas en Ayacucho, Perú, 1946
Augusta García Platas murió tras un aborto clandestino en Ayacucho en 1946. Este ensayo, basado en materiales del Archivo Histórico de Ayacucho, da cuenta del proceso criminal que se abrió para determinar los responsables de su muerte. A pesar de que sindicaron a ciertos individuos como culpables directos de provocar el aborto, las autoridades judiciales consideraban que la causa de fondo de la muerte de la joven había sido el abandono por parte …
Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
The premise of this book, that publics in industrialized nations have overlooked Cuban medical internationalism, is indisputable. To correct this, John Kirk details the proactive Cuban presence in the aftermath of environmental catastrophes in developing nations, the country's vast medical pedagogical reach, and its robust partnerships in specific projects, such as biotechnology and eye surgery provision. Kirk objects to the labeling of Cuba's me…
Mexico’s health diplomacy and the Ventanilla de Salud program
Arresting Leprosy: Therapeutic Outcomes Besides Cure
This essay focuses on the use of the concept of “arrest” in Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in the United States in the early to middle part of the 20th century, as well as the transformations the concept underwent with the arrival of sulfone drugs and the implications of these changes for patients and public health officers. An “arrest” was a therapeutic outcome characterized by a long course of treatment, noncontagiousness, a very small chance of re…
The Anti-Cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru
Peru's first cancer control public outreach scheme started in the 1910s, but ground to a standstill as it attained official governmental recognition in 1926 as the Liga Anti-Cancerosa (LAC). This paper explains the developments leading to that earliest effort to enlist a coalition of State health agencies, physicians, and lay people in a campaign to publicize early signs of this disease, as well as the medical and political reasons for and implic…
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s
The rise and fall of Lima’s red-light district, Huatica, between 1928 and 1956 anchors a story that connects the mid-nineteenth century and the present day about the uneasy coexistence of rationales to regulate and abolish prostitution. Over six crisply argued chapters, bookended by an introduction and a short conclusion section, The Sexual Question shows how multiple contributors to these rationales attempted to influence health policymaking, in…
Development as Gender Equity: Women's Advocacy and Cancer Control at the Pan-American Health Organization, 1980–2000
Women's advocates’ strategies to influence international health agencies offer a new way to think about development. This article deals with the vibrant growth of women's health initiatives at the Pan-American Health Organization during Latin America's financially turbulent years from the 1980s through the 1990s. The multi-faceted nature of this process was especially apparent in the case of cervical cancer, the illness that launched the organiza…
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education
Tapping Historians' Capacities to Confront Racism at Academic Health Centers: Notes of Encouragement and Caution
Represented: Black Alumni at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1960s–1970s
In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
Eric D. Carter succeeds with this ambitious history of social medicine in Latin America. Over seven chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, we become reacquainted with characters who have animated institutions and debates with local and global reach, including Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán, Eduardo Cruz-Coke, Salvador Allende, Juan Lazarte, and Josué de Castro. The story, however, is not so much powered by the people whom it features as by the…
The Unruly Endurance of Condurango in Global Cancer Care
The trajectory of condurango, an Andean vine, included a meteoric global rise in the 1860s as a cancer specific, a fall from grace, an enduring phase as a cancer adjuvant, and a return to various national pharmacopeias as a stomachic, all the while continuing to elicit laments from clinicians who insisted into the 1920s that the vine’s anti-cancer properties never got a fair trial. This article contextualizes condurango’s unsettled relevance by h…
Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
Healer Edelmira Salazar de Guzmán went to considerable lengths to demonstrate her skill as a cancer specialist in 1920s Bogotá. Her satisfied patients’ testimonials certified by Colombian authorities and her astute interpretations of Colombia's health regulations portray her as someone who could effectively compete with medical experts in the complex and rapidly changing field of cancer care. Salazar's story sheds light on a popular attitude towa…
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine
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