Rurality, migration and urban marginality in the “Educador Sanitario” Magazine (Argentina, 1960-1970)

Abstract

e study focuses on the educational-health
discourses of a state agency in relation to the population of extracentral provinces, migrant groups, and residents in contexts of
urban informality in Argentina in the 1960s. For this purpose, it
examines the "Educador Sanitario" Magazine, which depended
on the Dirección de Educación Sanitaria y Social de la Nación
to disseminate, among broad audiences, technical knowledge
and practical advice on modern developmentalist guidelines in
public health. In these expert rhetorics, the recourse to quackery,
the dissemination of endemics and epidemics and the alleged
psychophysical disadvantages to adapt to the city rhythm were
some of the features of those who migrated to the metropolitan
areas, with a single destination: to live in the marginal suburbs.