Police officers and medical doctors during the yellow fever epidemic (Buenos Aires, 1871)
Diego Galeano
Licenciado en Sociología. Doctorando en Historia Social, Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Investigador del Departamento de Planificación y Políticas Públicas, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina
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4 April 2009
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Abstract
This paper examines the action of medical doctors and policemen during the yellow fever epidemic in Buenos Aires (1871). Even though during the XIX century epidemics were frequent, the yellow fever one constitutes a break, not only because of its scope and material effects on the city, but also because it opened a crisis of hegemonic discourses. In particular, the paper scrutinizes the effects of the yellow fever epidemics on the figures of doctors and policemen, who were redesigned in light of tropes of heroism and sacrifice.
Keywords: Epidemics, Public Health, History of Medicine, Argentina
ISSN 1669-2381 (print version) | ISSN 1851-8265 (electronic version) | 2250-5334 (english edition)
Editor in chief: Viviana Martinovich
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Lanús
Rector: Daniel Rodriguez Bozzani
29 de Septiembre 3901, Remedios de Escalada, Lanús (B1826GLC), Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina