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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Diego ArmusPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.721kg ISBN: 9780822349990ISBN 10: 082234999 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 08 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A History of Tuberculosis in Modern Buenos Aires 1 1. People with Tuberculosis Looking for Cures 23 2. From Being Sick to Becoming a Patient 49 3. Unruly and Well-Adjusted Patients 84 4. The Fight against Tuberculosis and the Culture of Hygiene 115 5. The Obsession with Contagion 141 6. A Disease of Excesses 189 7. Immigration, Race, and Tuberculosis 221 8. A Female Disease 251 9. Forging the Healthy Body: Physical Education, Soccer, Childhood, and Tuberculosis 276 10. Tuberculosis and Regeneration: Imagined Cities, Green Spaces, and Hygienic Housing 307 Epilogue 345 Abbreviations 351 Notes 353 Selected Bibliography 397 Index 409ReviewsAn infectious disease linked to poverty, debauched sexuality, and ailing cities, tuberculosis was forged into myths that influenced doctors and patients, everyday urban life, popular culture, and scientific ideologies. Diego Armus draws a powerful fresco on the illness and its victims. His book is a poignant social and cultural history. Beatriz Sarlo, author of The Technical Imagination: Argentina's Modern Dreams Today, when TB is once again a global threat, we need historical studies to document the fact that the disease has always been about much more than bacilli. Diego Armus's rich account of the extraordinarily varied and complex ways TB entered into individual lives and public consciousness in Buenos Aires between 1870 and 1950 is a wonderful example of what the new history of medicine in Latin America can achieve. Nancy Leys Stepan, author of The Hour of Eugenics : Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Armus's study excels not just as a history of tuberculosis but also as an urban history, a history of medicalization, and a history of hygiene. This last focus is a particular strength of the book, as Armus masterfully reconstructs the multiple and shifting understandings of hygiene present in Buenos Aires during this period. -- Adam Warren Hispanic American Historical Review ... The Ailing City serves as a exemplary work in the social and cultural history of disease, and it will justifiably become a prized resource on its topic. -- Mariola Espinosa Medical History For its thought-provoking analysis of the discourses surrounding tuberculosis, based on deep immersion in historical archives, and for its reconstruction of the clandestine, perilous corners of dynamic urban life, The Ailing City deserves attention from historical geographers, especially those with an interest in the modernization of Latin American cities. -- Eric D. Carter Journal of Historical Geography At a time when the spectre of tuberculosis has again raised its ugly head across the world, this well informed history of the disease and its treatment in the Argentine capital makes a significant contribution to public health debates... [T]his book is worth reading, revealing as it does that combating disease is never just the preserve of scientists and technocrats, but often a political task that involves taking a hard look at poverty and social deprivation. -- Gavin O'Toole The Latin American Review of Books Diego Armus has written an important book that tells us much about how the reaction to tuberculosis helped create the modern society of the city of Buenos Aires. The impact was not just on hospitals, sanatoria and those who suffered the disease - tuberculosis also had a significant and interesting impact on many sectors of the city's culture. This is a book well worth reading. -- Joel Horowitz The Journal of Latin American Studies This analysis of the discourses, practices, and images of tuberculosis in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Buenos Aires delivers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which fears about the disease influenced daily life in the Argentine metropolis. ... Armus's book is a rich and welcome study of how discussions about disease prevention and control reflected broader cultural and political anxieties during a period of significant social change in Argentina. -- Katherine Bliss The Americas This book is a valuable addition to the history of Buenos Aires and to the history of medicine. Instructors in these fields as well as in urban studies will welcome its appearance in English. -- Julia Rodriguez American Historical Review This is an important book based on an exhaustive examination of materials on TB as a disease and cultural artifact. It will be essential reading for those interested in Latin American History, the social history of disease, the history of TB and Argentine History. -- Ann Zulawski Global Public Health An infectious disease linked to poverty, debauched sexuality, and ailing cities, tuberculosis was forged into myths that influenced doctors and patients, everyday urban life, popular culture, and scientific ideologies. The Ailing City is a powerful depiction of the illness and its victims and a poignant social and cultural history. -- Beatriz Sarlo, author of The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams In this splendidly rich study, Diego Armus shows how tuberculosis was intertwined with almost every facet of life in Buenos Aires, from the world of work to popular entertainment. With admirable attention to the lives of the sick and issues such as immigration and modernization, The Ailing City ranks among the finest cultural histories of disease. -- Mark Harrison, University of Oxford Today, when TB is once again a global threat, we need historical studies to document the fact that the disease has always been about much more than bacilli. Diego Armus's rich account of the extraordinarily varied and complex ways that TB entered into individual lives and public consciousness in Buenos Aires between 1870 and 1950 is a wonderful example of what the new history of medicine in Latin America can achieve. -- Nancy Leys Stepan, author of The Hour of Eugenics : Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America ""An infectious disease linked to poverty, debauched sexuality, and ailing cities, tuberculosis was forged into myths that influenced doctors and patients, everyday urban life, popular culture, and scientific ideologies. Diego Armus draws a powerful fresco on the illness and its victims. His book is a poignant social and cultural history."" Beatriz Sarlo, author of The Technical Imagination: Argentina's Modern Dreams ""Today, when TB is once again a global threat, we need historical studies to document the fact that the disease has always been about much more than bacilli. Diego Armus's rich account of the extraordinarily varied and complex ways TB entered into individual lives and public consciousness in Buenos Aires between 1870 and 1950 is a wonderful example of what the new history of medicine in Latin America can achieve."" Nancy Leys Stepan, author of ""The Hour of Eugenics"": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America ""In this splendidly rich study, Diego Armus shows how tuberculosis was intertwined with almost every facet of life in Buenos Aires, from the world of work to popular entertainment. With admirable attention to the lives of the sick and issues such as immigration and modernization, The Ailing City ranks among the finest cultural histories of disease."" - Mark Harrison, University of Oxford Author InformationDiego Armus is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College. He has written and edited several books in Spanish, and is the editor of Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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