LEADER 05641nam 22007214a 450 001 9910452020903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-7724-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467150 035 $a(EBL)880383 035 $a(OCoLC)82782901 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122842 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122842 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131463 035 $a(PQKB)10867145 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880383 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880383 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273435 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929774 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467150 100 $a20050801d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivilizing Argentina$b[electronic resource] $escience, medicine, and the modern state /$fJulia Rodri?guez 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5669-X 311 $a0-8078-2997-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-302) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 Hygiene 327 $aThe 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 Crowd 327 $aThe 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'' 327 $aMen 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. Hygiene 327 $aEIGHT: 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 Citizenship 327 $aThe ''Intelligent Incorporation'' of the Immigrant 330 $aAfter 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. 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