Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-Of-The-Century Argentina Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Kristin Ruggiero
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This book examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization, and real public health issues in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. Modernity in the Flesh shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Modernity raised consciousness of the public good and a commitment to new sciences and a new set of priorities that asserted the precedence of health and security of the social whole. This book shows the ways that the tensions of liberal democracy between individual rights and the social good were tempered by "flesh" and articulated through this word. As the state was pursuing positivist science and government, the flesh held out a type of corrective to the focus on scientific and material progress.
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- Title Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-Of-The-Century Argentina
- Author Kristin Ruggiero
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 2003-12-18
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780804748711 / 0804748713
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.22 x 0.84 in (24.03 x 15.80 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Degeneration - History - 19th century, Crime - Argentina - Buenos Aires - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003021084
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.982
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- Choice, 10/01/2004, Page 378
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