Civilizing Argentina : science, medicine, and the modern state /

Rodriguez analyzes the powerful alliance between medicine, science, and the state in Argentina between 1880 and 1914, resulting in a political culture based on a medical model of defining social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through program...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Rodríguez, Julia, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
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