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
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
