Carlos S Dimas

Poisoned Eden

Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908

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Produktbeschreibung

Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781496228628
• ISBN-10: 1496228626
• Artikelnr.: 61436912

Autorenporträt

Carlos S. Dimas is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health
Part 1. Foundations and Context
1. A Garden in the Republic: Land, Labor, and Life in Nineteenth-Century
Tucumán
2. The Global Age of Cholera: Argentina’s Late Confrontation with Cholera
Part 2. Environments and Peripheries in the Fourth Pandemic
3. Regional Health: Cholera from the Frontlines of the Paraguayan War to
Tucumán, 1865–67
4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucumán and the
Limitations of Medicalization during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867–68
Part 3. The Politics of Contagion and Political Conflict
5. The Plague of Fear: The Politics of Sanitary Cordons and Questions of
Governance in the National Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87
6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87 in Tucumán: From Provincial Health to
National Health
Part 4. Medical Expansion
7. Purifying the Land against Cholera: The Epidemic of 1894–95 and Medical
Expansion in Tucumán during the Era of Reform
Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19
Notes
Bibliography
Index