Title Civilizing Argentina : science, medicine, and the modern state / Julia Rodriguez

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, 1 map Contents Barbarism and the civilizing sciences -- The rise of the social pathologists : merging science and the state -- A national science to investigate the "abnormal individual" -- Defects of organic constitution : degeneration of the nation's "Germ Plasm" -- 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" -- 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 Summary Rodriguez analyzes the powerful alliance between medicine, science, and the state in Argentina between 1880 and 1914, resulting in a political culture based on a medical model of defining social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through programs of social hygiene. She argues that these policies led to the destruction of Argentina's early liberal progress and opened the way to the antidemocratic regimes that came later in the twentieth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-302) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Science and state -- Argentina -- History Science and civilization. Eugenics -- Argentina -- History Social control -- Argentina -- History Eugenics. National Health Programs -- history Civilization -- history Health Policy -- history Social Conditions -- history Eugenics History, 19th Century History, 20th Century HISTORY. Civilization Civilization -- Philosophy Eugenics Science and civilization Science and state Social control Social policy Nationalbewusstsein Gesellschaftskritik Geschichte. Gesellschaft. Soziale Kontrolle. Wissenschaft. Sciences -- Histoire -- Argentine. Argentine -- Civilisation -- 19e siècle. Argentine -- 19e siècle. Argentine -- Politique sociale. SUBJECT Argentina -- Civilization -- 19th century Argentina -- History -- 1860-1910. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007047 Argentina -- Civilization -- Philosophy Argentina -- Social policy Argentina Subject Argentina Argentinien Argentinien. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807877241 0807877247 9781429453820 1429453826

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