Civilizing Argentina (eBook)

Science, Medicine, and the Modern State

Julia Rodriguez (Autor)

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2006
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7724-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;civilize"e; 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 medical, scientific, and state authorities in Argentina. These elite forces promulgated a political culture based on a medical model that defined social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through programs of social hygiene. They instituted programs to fingerprint immigrants, measure the bodies of prisoners, place wives who disobeyed their husbands in "e;houses of deposit,"e; and exclude or expel people deemed socially undesirable, including groups such as labor organizers and prostitutes. Such policies, Rodriguez argues, led to the destruction of the nation's liberal ideals and opened the way to the antidemocratic, authoritarian governments that came later in the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2006
• Zusatzinfo: 16 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: alcoholics • Anarchism • Anarchists • Buenos Aires • Citizenship • Crime • criminal sociology • Criminology • Discipline • Disease • Eugenics • Fingerprinting • gender and the state • "houses of deposit" • Medical History • Medicine • mentally ill citizens • Nationalism • Police • Prostitution • Public Health • science and the state • Scientific Knowledge • Selective Immigration • social decay • Social Hygiene • social pathology • State Formation • Surveillance • unruly women
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7724-7 / 0807877247
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7724-1 / 9780807877241