Forging vital and health statistics in Bogotá, 1878-1938.

This is a historical project that, using approaches from the history and sociology of quantification, seeks to establish how and why and with what arguments doctors and public authorities incorporated forms of quantitative understanding (statistics) of population dynamics (vital statistics) and health and between the end of the 19th century and the 20th century in Bogotá; the categories and knowledge that were mobilized to produce these statistics; the social groups that would have helped to consolidate as real in said effort; the institutional and/or professional arrangements that made this work possible; and, finally, its meaning and uses within the social and political order of the period.

History of public health; history of medicine; Bogota history.

1. Degree thesis

2.Historical and visual narrative

3.Workshop with general public

4. Publishable article (Q1 journal or
Q2)