Diseases and remedies in modern city: environmental perspectives of argentinian eugenism between the mundial wars
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2007.v59.i1.222Keywords:
Modern city, biopolitics, eugenics, biotipology, enviroment, population, fascismAbstract
During the inter - war period it consolidate in Argentina a tendency to pathologize the modern city, understood like an ill organism that produced and was consequence phisical and moral decadency
of its habitants. The interruption of external inmigration contributed with new information for a strategy of regeneration that tried to establish from eugenesics directed to articulate the populationism with the territorial distribution, in the certainty that counteracted country the evils that generated the life modern. The work reviews the impact of this ideology in the different spheres and the way in which has integrated the cultural politic of the fascism and taked part of the corpus with which the biotipology looked to give scientific legitimacy.
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