Modernity in the flesh

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.

subjects: Case studies,  Crime,  Degeneration,  History,  Human Body,  Moral and ethical aspects of the Human body,  Political aspects of the Human body,  Social aspects of the Human body,  Social control,  Social medicine,  Crime, latin america,  Human body, social aspects,  Buenos aires (argentina), history,  Social aspects,  Political aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Medical Sociology,  Social Change,  History, 19th Century

Places: Argentina,  Buenos Aires

Times: 19th century