Review
The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
Medical History, Vol.56(4), pp.604-605
10/01/2012
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2012.64
Abstract
The work would have been stronger, too, had the author included a more explicit argument: one example left unstated regards the relative importance of controlling tuberculosis in relation to broader efforts to remake the population of Buenos Aires into responsible, moral citizens deemed appropriate to a growing, modern city of international stature.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
- Creators
- Mariola Espinosa
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Medical History, Vol.56(4), pp.604-605
- DOI
- 10.1017/mdh.2012.64
- ISSN
- 0025-7273
- eISSN
- 2048-8343
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; London
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984011837402771
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