The Ailing City : Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950 /

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The first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Latin America demonstrates that in addition to being a biological phenomenon disease is also a social construction effected by rhetoric, politics, and the daily life of its victims.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Armus, Diego
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tuberculosis.
Public health.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Sante publique > Argentine > Buenos Aires > Histoire.
Tuberculose > Argentine > Buenos Aires > Histoire.
Socioeconomic Factors
Preventive Health Services > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > prevention & control
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history
Public health > Argentina > Buenos Aires > History.
Tuberculosis > Argentina > Buenos Aires > History.
Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Argentina
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • People with tuberculosis looking for cures
  • From being sick to becoming a patient
  • Unruly and well-adjusted patients
  • The fight against tuberculosis and the culture of hygiene
  • The obsession with contagion
  • A disease of excesses
  • Immigration, race, and tuberculosis
  • A female disease
  • Forging the healthy body : physical education, soccer, childhood, and tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis and regeneration : imagined cities, green spaces, and hygienic housing.

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