Diego ArmusThe Ailing City
Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
Diego Armus is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College. He has written and edited several books in Spanish, and is the editor of Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, also published by Duke University Press.
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A History of Tuberculosis in Modern Buenos Aires 1
1. People with Tuberculosis Looking for Cures 23
2. From Being Sick to Becoming a Patient 49
3. Unruly and Well-Adjusted Patients 84
4. The Fight against Tuberculosis and the Culture of Hygiene 115
5. The Obsession with Contagion 141
6. A Disease of Excesses 189
7. Immigration, Race, and Tuberculosis 221
8. A Female Disease 251
9. Forging the Healthy Body: Physical Education, Soccer, Childhood, and
Tuberculosis 276
10. Tuberculosis and Regeneration: Imagined Cities, Green Spaces, and
Hygienic Housing 307
Epilogue 345
Abbreviations 351
Notes 353
Selected Bibliography 397
Index 409
