The ailing city
Subtitle: health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
By: Diego Armus
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780822349990; 9780822350125
Subjects: Public health; Tuberculosis; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: People with tuberculosis looking for cures; title: From being sick to becoming a patient; title: Unruly and well-adjusted patients; title: The fight against tuberculosis and the culture of hygiene; title: The obsession with contagion; title: A disease of excesses; title: Immigration, race, and tuberculosis; title: A female disease; title: Forging the healthy body : physical education, soccer, childhood, and tuberculosis; title: Tuberculosis and regeneration : imagined cities, green spaces, and hygienic housing.