About
Diego Armus serves as Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College, specializing in the socio-cultural intersections of health, disease, and medicine within Latin American historical contexts.
His research spans Latin American History, History of Medicine, Public Health History, Disease History, and Cultural History, with seminal works including The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950 and Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. As co-editor of The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America, Armus examines non-biomedical healing practices across five centuries, challenging orthodox frameworks by highlighting healers operating in the liminal spaces between official and unofficial medicine to reveal deeper social and cultural continuities in Latin American history.
