05641nam 22007214a 450 991045202090332120200520144314.00-8078-7724-7(CKB)1000000000467150(EBL)880383(OCoLC)82782901(SSID)ssj0000122842(PQKBManifestationID)11135181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122842(PQKBWorkID)10131463(PQKB)10867145(MiAaPQ)EBC880383(Au-PeEL)EBL880383(CaPaEBR)ebr10273435(CaONFJC)MIL929774(EXLCZ)99100000000046715020050801d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCivilizing Argentina[electronic resource] science, medicine, and the modern state /Julia RodríguezChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5669-X 0-8078-2997-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-302) and index.CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. Symptoms; ONE: Barbarism and the Civilizing Sciences; Barbarism in a Young and Fertile Country; MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; Civilizing the Pampa: Transcending the Nation's Past; ''To Govern Is to Populate'': Importing Whiteness; The Generation of 1880: Making a Great Nation; TWO: The Rise of the Social Pathologists: Merging Science and the State; Argentina, the Idea of Europe, and Racial Implications; ''In the Echo of Your Progress'': A Transatlantic Conversation; An Alliance of State and Science for the Advancement of HygieneThe Medical Policing of the ''Born Criminal''PART II. Diagnosis; THREE: A National Science to Investigate the ''Abnormal Individual''; ''A Study of Our Own Criminality'': Measuring Social Pathology; A Synthetic Program of Psychopathology; A Taxonomy of Delinquents and Deviants; ''A Useful Exaggeration'': Classification and Race; FOUR: Defects of Organic Constitution: Degeneration of the Nation's ''Germ Plasm''; Unnatural Sex: Female Hysteria and Other Psychoses; The Urban Male Criminal: Indolence, Regressive Heredity, and Alcoholism; ''A Foreign and Hostile Horde'': The CrowdThe Worst Type of Criminal: The Anarchist of ''Degenerate Lineage''PART III. Prescriptions; FIVE: Women Confined to Save the Future Nation: Home and Houses of Deposit; The ''Pride of the Kitchen, Bedroom, and Parlor'' but Prone to Hysteria; Wayward Wives, Women on Deposit, and Feminist Responses; Regulating the Pathological Prostitute; The Civilizing Influence of Mothers and the ''Improvement of the Species''; SIX: Men on the Street: A Threat to ''Our Industrial and Social Organization''; Social Parasites Who ''Refuse to Obey the Natural Law of Work''Men in Groups: ''A Very Grave Danger to the Public Order''A Science of Political Policing; ''Our Police Have Obtained a Complete Success'': Fingerprinting the Masses; SEVEN: Places of Regeneration: Prison and Asylum as ''Medicine for the Soul''; ''Moral Orthopedics'': Specialized Institutions for the Mentally Ill, Women, and Juveniles; ''A System of Rational Separation'': The National Penitentiary; ''True Innovation in the Study of the Criminal'': The Criminology Institute; Regeneration through the ''Love of Work'' and Civic Morals; PART IV. HygieneEIGHT: Public Hygiene against Foreign Contagion and ''Sanitary Anarchy''Public Hygiene as a ''Material Religion''; ''Selective Immigration with Scientific Criteria'': A Solution to ''Deplorable Ethnic Conditions''; Fingerprinting Foreigners to Inoculate against ''Pernicious Elements''; NINE: To ''Formulate a New Race, the Argentine Race,'' for Democracy and Civic Regeneration; Weighing and Measuring the Words of Law: Legal Codes and Civic Responsibility; Determining Dangerousness to Ensure Maximum Social Security; ''Cover Them with the Flag'': Naturalization and CitizenshipThe ''Intelligent Incorporation'' of the ImmigrantAfter a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled many historians. In Civilizing Argentina, Julia Rodriguez takes a sharply contrary view, demonstrating that Argentina's turn of fortune is not a mystery but rather the ironic consequence of schemes to ""civilize"" the nation in the name of progressivism, health, science, and public order.With new medical aScience and stateArgentinaHistoryScience and civilizationEugenicsArgentinaHistorySocial controlArgentinaHistoryArgentinaCivilization19th centuryArgentinaHistory1860-1910ArgentinaCivilizationPhilosophyArgentinaSocial policyElectronic books.Science and stateHistory.Science and civilization.EugenicsHistory.Social controlHistory.982/.04Rodríguez Julia1967-946045MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452020903321Civilizing Argentina2137177UNINA