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Author(s): Julia Rodriguez
ISBN(s): 9780807829974, 0807829978
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0807829978 
ISBN 13: 9780807829974
Author: Julia Rodriguez

After 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. 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. These elite forces promulgated a political culture based on a medical model that defined social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through programs of social hygiene. They instituted programs to fingerprint immigrants, measure the bodies of prisoners, place wives who disobeyed their husbands in “houses of deposit,” and exclude or expel people deemed socially undesirable, including groups such as labor organizers and prostitutes. Such policies, Rodriguez argues, led to the destruction of the nation’s liberal ideals and opened the way to the antidemocratic, authoritarian governments that came later in the twentieth century.

Civilizing Argentina Science Medicine and the Modern State 1st Table of contents:

PART I – Symptoms
ONE – Barbarism and the Civilizing Sciences
Barbarism in a Young and Fertile Country
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
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
The 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
Unnatural Sex: Female Hysteria and Other Psychoses
The Urban Male Criminal: Indolence, Regressive Heredity, and Alcoholism
“A Foreign and Hostile Horde: The Crowd ”
The Worst Type of Criminal: The Anarchist of “Degenerate Lineage”
PART III – Prescriptions
FIVE – Women Confined to Save the Future Nation
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
Social Parasites Who Refuse to Obey the Natural Law of Work”
Men 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
“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
EIGHT – Public Hygiene against Foreign Contagion and “Sanitary Anarchy”
Public Hygiene as a “Material Religion”
“Selective Immigration with Scientific Criteria”: A Solution to Deplorable …
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
The “Intelligent Incorporation” of the Immigrant
TEN – “Fully Attacking the Source of Moral Infection”
“Preventive-Social Hygiene”: A Permanent Segregation of the Dangerous Element
Perfecting the Social and Legal Order: Fingerprinting as Prophylaxis
“Errors of Sex”: Social Prophylaxis and Sexual Control
AFTERWORD – A “New Civilization” Shaped by Science

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