Civilizing Argentina Science, Medicine, and the Modern State

Name: Civilizing Argentina Science, Medicine, and the Modern State
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ISBN: 9780807856697

ISBN-10: 080785669X

ISBN-13: 9780807856697

Edition: 2006

Authors: Julia Rodriguez

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After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled many historians. In Civilizing Argentina, Julia Rodriguez takes a sharply contrary view, demonstrating that Argentina's turn of fortune is not a mystery but rather the ironic consequence of schemes to "civilize" the nation in the name of progressivism, health, science, and public order. With new medical and scientific information arriving from Europe at the turn of the century, a powerful alliance developed among…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English




Symptoms



Barbarism and the civilizing sciences



The rise of the social pathologists : merging science and the state



Diagnosis



A national science to investigate the "abnormal individual"



Defects of organic constitution : degeneration of the nation's "germ plasm"



Prescriptions



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"



Hygiene



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


Afterword : a "new civilization" shaped by science : its paradoxes and its consequences



Provinces and territories of Argentina and native tribes of the Buenos Aires region, ca. 1840



Buenos Aires, waterfront and surrounding Barrios, circa 1910