Poisoned Eden : cholera epidemics, state-building, and the problem of public health in Tucum�an, Argentina, 1865-1908 / Carlos S. Dimas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimas, Carlos S., author.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cholera--Social aspects--Argentina--Tucumán--19th century.

Cholera.

Cholera--Social aspects.

Argentina--Tucumán.

Cholera--Social aspects--Argentina--Tucumán--20th century.

Choloera--Political aspects--Argentina--Tucumán--19th century.

Choloera.

Choloera--Political aspects--Argentina--Tucumán--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 Tucum�an

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 Tucum�an, 1865-67

4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucum�an 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 Tucum�an: 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 Tucum�an during the Era of Reform

Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781496229199

1496229193

Publisher Number:

40030891734

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