Ailing City

Armus Diego Armus

Description

For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences for housing and living conditions, efforts to build a healthy "national race," and shifting notions of normality and pathology. In The Ailing City, the historian Diego Armus explores the metaphors, state policies, and experiences associated with tuberculosis in Buenos Aires between 1870 and 1950. During those years, the disease was conspicuous and frightening, and biomedicine was unable to offer an effective cure. Against the background of the global history of tuberculosis, Armus focuses on the making and consolidation of medicalized urban life in the Argentine capital. He discusses the state's intrusion into private lives and the ways that those suffering from the disease accommodated and resisted official attempts to care for them and to reform and control their morality, sociability, sexuality, and daily habits. The Ailing City is based on an impressive array of sources, including literature, journalism, labor press, medical journals, tango lyrics, films, advertising, imagery, statistics, official reports, and oral history. It offers a unique perspective on the emergence of modernity in a cosmopolitan city on the periphery of world capitalism.

Sujets

• Histoire
• América del Sur
• Argentina
• 20th century
• South America
• History of medicine
• History of the Americas
• Argentine

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 08 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822394198
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE AILING CITY

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Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture

in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950

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FouR.e Fiht aainst Tuberculosis and the Culture of Hyiene

FIVE.e Obsession with Contaion

SIX.A isease of Excesses

SEVEn.Immiration, Race, and Tuberculosis

EIGHT.A Female isease

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TEn.Tuberculosis and Reeneration Imainary Cities, Green Spaces, and Hyienic Housin

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