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The Ailing City
Diego Armus
其他書名
Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
出版
Duke University Press
, 2011-07-08
主題
History / Latin America / South America
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Medical / Diseases
Medical / Forensic Medicine
Medical / History
Medical / Public Health
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
9780822350125
0822350122
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=J1DE0q62bdsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.