Venereal Disease prophylactic programs, public health policies and social conflicts--between ladino and indigenous/working class are seen at the urbanization of the City in the 1940s, when American and British imperial prostitution policy influenced public health policies and enforced by national police distinguished ladina women from indigenous/working class women who were seen as a social other. Although PHS policies attempted to modernize medicine and the "public" woman in within the inner zones of Guatemala City to highlight that Guatemalan Public Health Services had social agency of its institution in a moment that the national goal was to modernize. However, they were still under resourced leading them to agree to collaborate in unethical experiments with the United States trading off its backwards, diseased prostitutes and prisoners for public health training in Venereal Disease and public health infrastructure, such as the building of new serological and venereal disease research laboratories.
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These policies, social conflicts and venereal disease programs reveal that despite the ladino PHS physician’s good intentions for modernizing public space and working class woman were still seen as vagrants, diseased and
These policies, social conflicts and venereal disease programs reveal that despite the ladino PHS physician’s good intentions for modernizing public space and working class woman were still seen as vagrants, diseased and