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Poisoned Eden : cholera epidemics, state-building, and the problem of public health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908
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Details
- Creator
- Carlos S. Dimas
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1496208404, 9781496228628, 9781496229199, 1496229193, 1496228626, 9781496208408
- OCLC
- on1287048876
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- 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 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