Resumo O primeiro programa peruano de sensibilização pública para controle do câncer iniciou na década de 1910, mas arrefeceu quando reconhecido pelo governo como Liga Anticancerosa (LAC), em 1926. Este artigo aborda os avanços que conduziram aos pioneiros esforços de recrutamento de agências governamentais de saúde, médicos e leigos na divulgação sobre os primeiros sinais da doença, assim como as motivações políticas e médicas e as implicações de seu declínio. Além de assinalar a importância de iniciativas profissionais no ativismo na temática do câncer, a contextualização da ascensão e declínio da LAC chama a atenção para os reflexos da hospitalização no tratamento do câncer sobre aspectos indiretamente relacionados ao tratamento, como os esforços de sensibilização pública.

Abstract 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 implications of its decline. Besides highlighting the importance of professional initiatives shaping cancer activism, contextualizing the rise and fall of the LAC calls attention to the effects that hospitalization of cancer treatment had on aspects of cancer care that were not directly treatment-related, such as public outreach.

Abstract Augusta García Platas died after a clandestine abortion in Ayacucho in 1946. This article, based on material in the Historical Archive in Ayacucho, examines the criminal trial that was held to determine who was responsible for her death. Although the judicial authorities accused certain individuals of being directly responsible for inducing an abortion, they considered that the root cause of the young woman’s death was neglect on the part of those who were supposed to protect her physical and moral health. This case provides an opportunity to clarify the strategies used by the defendants to refute criminal charges. It also helps us understand the various deficiencies of the Peruvian legal system in the mid-twentieth century.

Resumen 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 de quienes debían velar por su salud física y moral. Este caso nos brinda la oportunidad de esclarecer las estrategias que los implicados usaban para defenderse de acusaciones criminales. Además, nos ayuda a entender las diversas deficiencias del Poder Judicial peruano de mediados del siglo XX.

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 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Though originally confidential, the NSSM 200 became public in the 1990s, and is one of the few sources that help us understand how the U.S. government interpreted demographic growth in the 1960s and 1970s, its relation to poverty in developing countries, and the national security of the U.S.

En este ensayo se presentan los principales argumentos del National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), elaborado en 1974 por la oficina del Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos. Este documento, titulado Implications of worldwide population growth for U.S. security and overseas interests, revela las acciones de planificación familiar que este gobierno tomaría para disminuir las tasas de crecimiento poblacional en países menos desarrollados, particularmente aquellos que recibían apoyo de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID). Aunque originalmente de naturaleza confidencial, el NSSM 200 se hizo público en la década del '90, y es una de las pocas fuentes que existen para entender cómo el gobierno de los EE.UU. interpretaba el crecimiento demográfico en los años '60 y '70 del siglo XX, su relación con la pobreza en los países en vías de desarrollo, y la seguridad nacional de los EE.UU.

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 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Though originally confidential, the NSSM 200 became public in the 1990s, and is one of the few sources that help us understand how the U.S. government interpreted demographic growth in the 1960s and 1970s, its relation to poverty in developing countries, and the national security of the U.S.

En este ensayo se presentan los principales argumentos del National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), elaborado en 1974 por la oficina del Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos. Este documento, titulado Implications of worldwide population growth for U.S. security and overseas interests, revela las acciones de planificación familiar que este gobierno tomaría para disminuir las tasas de crecimiento poblacional en países menos desarrollados, particularmente aquellos que recibían apoyo de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID). Aunque originalmente de naturaleza confidencial, el NSSM 200 se hizo público en la década del '90, y es una de las pocas fuentes que existen para entender cómo el gobierno de los EE.UU. interpretaba el crecimiento demográfico en los años '60 y '70 del siglo XX, su relación con la pobreza en los países en vías de desarrollo, y la seguridad nacional de los EE.UU.