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 |
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.