Death is all around us : corpses, chaos, and public health in Porfirian Mexico City, 1887-1913 / Jonathan M. Weber.

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Weber, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781496214348
149621434X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death is all around us.DDC classification:

363.7/5097253 23

LOC classification:

RA452.M6 W43 2019eb

NLM classification:

WA 11 DM4

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Contents:

Moving into the modern era: transporting the dead in Mexico City -- "An extraordinary tool": building a modern public health system through anatomical dissection -- Wet or dry remains: funerary technology and protecting public health -- Undermining progress: workers, citizens, and the moral economy of death.

Summary: "Jonathan M. Weber examines the Mexican government's use of technological and scientific advancements to argue that the capital city, and thus the country as a whole, was capable of resolving public health dilemmas as part of the Porfirian administration's quest for modernization"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Jonathan M. Weber examines the Mexican government's use of technological and scientific advancements to argue that the capital city, and thus the country as a whole, was capable of resolving public health dilemmas as part of the Porfirian administration's quest for modernization"-- Provided by publisher.