Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.
Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.
Carlos S. Dimas is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health Part 1. Foundations and Context 1. A Garden in the Republic: Land, Labor, and Life in Nineteenth-Century Tucumán 2. The Global Age of Cholera: Argentina’s Late Confrontation with Cholera Part 2. Environments and Peripheries in the Fourth Pandemic 3. Regional Health: Cholera from the Frontlines of the Paraguayan War to Tucumán, 1865–67 4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucumán and the Limitations of Medicalization during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867–68 Part 3. The Politics of Contagion and Political Conflict 5. The Plague of Fear: The Politics of Sanitary Cordons and Questions of Governance in the National Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87 6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87 in Tucumán: From Provincial Health to National Health Part 4. Medical Expansion 7. Purifying the Land against Cholera: The Epidemic of 1894–95 and Medical Expansion in Tucumán during the Era of Reform Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19 Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health Part 1. Foundations and Context 1. A Garden in the Republic: Land, Labor, and Life in Nineteenth-Century Tucumán 2. The Global Age of Cholera: Argentina’s Late Confrontation with Cholera Part 2. Environments and Peripheries in the Fourth Pandemic 3. Regional Health: Cholera from the Frontlines of the Paraguayan War to Tucumán, 1865–67 4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucumán and the Limitations of Medicalization during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867–68 Part 3. The Politics of Contagion and Political Conflict 5. The Plague of Fear: The Politics of Sanitary Cordons and Questions of Governance in the National Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87 6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886–87 in Tucumán: From Provincial Health to National Health Part 4. Medical Expansion 7. Purifying the Land against Cholera: The Epidemic of 1894–95 and Medical Expansion in Tucumán during the Era of Reform Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19 Notes Bibliography Index
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