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Civilizing Argentina : science, medicine, and the modern state /
Rodriguez analyzes the powerful alliance between medicine, science, and the state in Argentina between 1880 and 1914, resulting in a political culture based on a medical model of defining social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through program...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Rodriguez analyzes the powerful alliance between medicine, science, and the state in Argentina between 1880 and 1914, resulting in a political culture based on a medical model of defining social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through programs of social hygiene. She argues that these policies led to the destruction of Argentina's early liberal progress and opened the way to the antidemocratic regimes that came later in the twentieth century. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807829974 0807829978 9780807877241 0807877247 9781429453820 1429453826 |