Kristin Ruggiero

Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-Of-The-Century Argentina

Buch

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 sta… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8047-4871-1
EAN: 9780804748711
Produktnummer: 1816407
Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.1 cm 481 g
Auflage: Anniversary
Gewicht: 481

Über den Autor

Kristin Ruggiero is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.