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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Julia, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Argentina--History.

Science and state.

Science and civilization.

Eugenics--Argentina--History.

Eugenics.

Social control--Argentina--History.

Social control.

Argentina--Civilization--19th century.

Argentina.

Argentina--History--1860-1910.

Argentina--Civilization--Philosophy.

Argentina--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ""civilize"" the nation in the name of progressivism, health, science, and public order.With new medical a

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. Symptoms; ONE: Barbarism and the Civilizing Sciences; Barbarism in a Young and Fertile Country; MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; Civilizing the Pampa: Transcending the Nation's Past; ''To Govern Is to Populate'': Importing Whiteness; The Generation of 1880: Making a Great Nation; TWO: The Rise of the Social Pathologists: Merging Science and the State; Argentina, the Idea of Europe, and Racial Implications; ''In the Echo of Your Progress'': A Transatlantic Conversation; An Alliance of State and Science for the Advancement of Hygiene

The Medical Policing of the ''Born Criminal''PART II. Diagnosis; THREE: A National Science to Investigate the ''Abnormal Individual''; ''A Study of Our Own Criminality'': Measuring Social Pathology; A Synthetic Program of Psychopathology; A Taxonomy of Delinquents and Deviants; ''A Useful Exaggeration'': Classification and Race; FOUR: Defects of Organic Constitution: Degeneration of the Nation's ''Germ Plasm''; Unnatural Sex: Female Hysteria and Other Psychoses; The Urban Male Criminal: Indolence, Regressive Heredity, and Alcoholism; ''A Foreign and Hostile Horde'': The Crowd

The Worst Type of Criminal: The Anarchist of ''Degenerate Lineage''PART III. Prescriptions; FIVE: Women Confined to Save the Future Nation: Home and Houses of Deposit; The ''Pride of the Kitchen, Bedroom, and Parlor'' but Prone to Hysteria; Wayward Wives, Women on Deposit, and Feminist Responses; Regulating the Pathological Prostitute; The Civilizing Influence of Mothers and the ''Improvement of the Species''; SIX: Men on the Street: A Threat to ''Our Industrial and Social Organization''; Social Parasites Who ''Refuse to Obey the Natural Law of Work''

Men in Groups: ''A Very Grave Danger to the Public Order''A Science of Political Policing; ''Our Police Have Obtained a Complete Success'': Fingerprinting the Masses; SEVEN: Places of Regeneration: Prison and Asylum as ''Medicine for the Soul''; ''Moral Orthopedics'': Specialized Institutions for the Mentally Ill, Women, and Juveniles; ''A System of Rational Separation'': The National Penitentiary; ''True Innovation in the Study of the Criminal'': The Criminology Institute; Regeneration through the ''Love of Work'' and Civic Morals; PART IV. Hygiene

EIGHT: Public Hygiene against Foreign Contagion and ''Sanitary Anarchy''Public Hygiene as a ''Material Religion''; ''Selective Immigration with Scientific Criteria'': A Solution to ''Deplorable Ethnic Conditions''; Fingerprinting Foreigners to Inoculate against ''Pernicious Elements''; NINE: To ''Formulate a New Race, the Argentine Race,'' for Democracy and Civic Regeneration; Weighing and Measuring the Words of Law: Legal Codes and Civic Responsibility; Determining Dangerousness to Ensure Maximum Social Security; ''Cover Them with the Flag'': Naturalization and Citizenship

The ''Intelligent Incorporation'' of the Immigrant

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-302) and index.

ISBN:

9798890880482

9780807877241

0807877247

OCLC:

82782901