Armus, Diego Books
The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, And Culture In Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cul...
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The Ailing City : Health, Tuberculosis, And Culture In Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
The first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Latin America demonstrates that in addition to being a biological phenomenon disease is also a social construction effected by rhetoric, politics, a...
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