Civilizing Argentina

Author: Julia Rodriguez
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 080785669X
Category: Medical

Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. Download Civilizing Argentina medical books for free.
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 and scientific information arriving from Europe at the turn of the century, a powerful alliance developed among medical, scientific, and state authorities in Argentina. Th Get Civilizing Argentina our bestseller medical books.

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