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Review Of Representing Argentinian Mothers: Medicine, Ideas, And Culture In The Modern Era, 1900–1946 By Y. Eraso
Review Of From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940 By S. Palmer
Milonguitas En Buenos Aires (1910-1940): Tango, Ascenso Social Y Tuberculosis
During the first three decades of the 20th century, in the fervor of urban change that transformed Buenos Aires into a metropolis, poetry, cinema, theater, and the lyrics of the tango repeatedly portrayed the path of muchachas de barrio who, by taking to nightlife and the downtown cabarets, placed their stakes on a society where social ascent — limited yet real — was part of the urban experience. For the most part written by men, the lyrics speak of these journeys in a tone of censure, and tuberculosis is cast as a form of punishment for these young women who dared to question their place in the domestic world and the world of the barrio. The tango thus offers its audience not only a highly moralizing account but also paints an image of an illness that seems unique to women although it in fact affected male and female alike
Disease/Health/Medicine/History: On The Consolidation Of A Subfield Of Study
This essay reviews the following works: Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940. By José Amador. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 219. 32.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781107633018. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru. By Raúl Necochea López. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 234. 29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477309056
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