The ailing city : health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950 / Diego Armus.

  • Armus, Diego.
Date:
2011
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Physical description

x, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

People with tuberculosis looking for cures -- From being sick to becoming a patient -- Unruly and well-adjusted patients -- The fight against tuberculosis and the culture of hygiene -- The obsession with contagion -- A disease of excesses -- Immigration, race, and tuberculosis -- A female disease -- Forging the healthy body : physical education, soccer, childhood, and tuberculosis -- Tuberculosis and regeneration : imagined cities, green spaces, and hygienic housing.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FI.7981.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 9780822349990
  • 082234999X
  • 9780822350125
  • 0822350122