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Poisoned Eden : Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 /
"In 1895, after enduring two previous cholera epidemics and facing horrific hygienic conditions and the fear of another epidemic, officials in the Argentine province of Tucumán described their home as the "Poisoned Eden," a play on its official title, "Garden of the Republic.&qu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health
- Part 1. Foundations and Context
- 1. A Garden in the Republic: Land, Labor, and Life in Nineteenth-Century Tucumán
- 2. The Global Age of Cholera: Argentina's Late Confrontation with Cholera
- Part 2. Environments and Peripheries in the Fourth Pandemic
- 3. Regional Health: Cholera from the Frontlines of the Paraguayan War to Tucumán, 1865-67
- 4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucumán and the Limitations of Medicalization during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867-68
- Part 3. The Politics of Contagion and Political Conflict
- 5. The Plague of Fear: The Politics of Sanitary Cordons and Questions of Governance in the National Cholera Epidemic of 1886-87
- 6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886-87 in Tucumán: From Provincial Health to National Health
- Part 4. Medical Expansion
- 7. Purifying the Land against Cholera: The Epidemic of 1894-95 and Medical Expansion in Tucumán during the Era of Reform
- Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.