Death is all around us : corpses, chaos, and public health in Porfirian Mexico City, 1887-1913 /

"Jonathan M. Weber examines the Mexican government's use of technological and scientific advancements to argue that the capital city, and thus the country as a whole, was capable of resolving public health dilemmas as part of the Porfirian administration's quest for modernization"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weber, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public health > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Corpse removals > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Public health.
Death.
Public Health
Death
Santé publique > Mexique > Mexico > Histoire.
Enlèvement des cadavres > Mexique > Mexico > Histoire.
Santé publique.
Mort.
public health.
deaths.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
Corpse removals.
Mexico > Mexico City.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moving into the modern era: transporting the dead in Mexico City
  • "An extraordinary tool": building a modern public health system through anatomical dissection
  • Wet or dry remains: funerary technology and protecting public health
  • Undermining progress: workers, citizens, and the moral economy of death.

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