Saberes médicos y políticas sanitarias en la Argentina durante la Guerra Fría.

This article seeks to analyze the ideas emerging from the medical knowledge regarding the design and implementation of public health policies in the 50's and 60's in Argentina. During the period under study, we have noticed there was a higher level of government intervention in the introduction of such policies during Peron's administration. This wider role led to the widening nature of social citizenship. After Peron's ouster (1955), the liberal-conservative ideas gave way to the interruption of the public works which had been undertaken before, and to a deep attempt to curb that stifling government interference which was thought to limit private initiative. The government played a supplementary role, and communities developed to create the necessary conditions to spur economic growth, to achieve self-financing, and to put an end to social strife which was considered an entry to Communism in the region. As the Cold war imposed strong military power and an environment of mistrust, there was an increasing belief that poverty in slums was linked to the lack of opportunities to achieve acceptable levels of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]