Modernity in the flesh
Subtitle: medicine, law, and society in turn-of-the-century Argentina
By: Kristin Ruggiero.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Crime -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Social control -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century; Degeneration -- History -- 19th century; Social medicine -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Modernity in the Flesh shows the cost Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Modernity raised consciousness of the public good and a commitment to new sciences and a new set of priorities that asserted the precedence of health and security of the social whole. This book shows the ways that the tensions of liberal democracy between individual rights and the social good were tempered by "flesh" and articulated through this word. As the state was pursuing positivist science and government, the flesh held out a type of corrective to the focus on scientific and material progress."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Liberalism and the ego; title: Social responsibility and free will; title: Social poisons and contagion; title: Modern diseases in the national identity; title: Eliminating threats to the state; title: Passion in a state of reason; title: Conclusion.