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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rodríguez, Julia, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Barbarism and the civilizing sciences
  • The rise of the social pathologists : merging science and the state
  • A national science to investigate the "abnormal individual"
  • Defects of organic constitution : degeneration of the nation's "Germ Plasm"
  • Women confined to save the future nation : home and houses of deposit
  • Men on the street : a threat to "our industrial and social organization"
  • Places of regeneration : prison and asylum as "medicine for the soul"
  • Public hygiene against foreign contagion and "sanitary anarchy"
  • To "formulate a new race, the Argentine race, " for democracy and civic regeneration
  • "Fully attacking the source of moral infection" : purging the nation of incurables.