Title: From prophylaxis to atomic cocktail: Circulation of radioiodine
Abstract: 1.-Introduction.2.-Goiter and iodine in the 1920s and 1930s.3.-After the war.4.-«Good news» and new tools: radioiodine knowledge and practices.5.-Requesting procedures: a US-Spain Agreement in 1949.6.-Circulating radioiodine.7.-A laboratory of experimental endocrinology.8.-Conclusions: for a history of iodine.ABSTRACT: This paper is a history of iodine.To trace the trajectory of this element, goiter is used as a guideline for the articulation of a historical account, as a representation of thyroid disorders and of the spaces of knowledge and practices related to iodine.Iodine's journey from goiter treatment and prophylaxis in the late interwar period took on a new course after WWII by including the element's radioactive isotopes.I intend to show how the introduction of radioiodine contributed to stabilize the epistemic role of iodine, in both its non-radioactive and radioactive form, in thyroid gland studies and in the treatment of its disorders.