Claudia Agostoni
Monuments of progress
Modernization and public health in Mexico City, 1876-1910
Primera edición, Calgary,
University of Calgary Press, University Press of Colorado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2003, 228 páginas, cuadros e ilustraciones
ISBN University of Calgary Press (bound) 1-55238-094-7
ISBN University of Calgary Press (pbk.) 1-55238-103-X
ISBN University Press of Colorado (bound) 0-87081-733-7
ISBN University Press of Colorado (pbk.) 0-87081-734-5
ISBN University of Calgary Press (bound) 1-55238-094-7
ISBN University of Calgary Press (pbk.) 1-55238-103-X
ISBN University Press of Colorado (bound) 0-87081-733-7
ISBN University Press of Colorado (pbk.) 0-87081-734-5
University Calgary Press Series
Latin American and Caribbean Series
En esta obra, Claudia Agostoni examina la modernización de la ciudad de México durante el Porfiriato. Asimismo analiza los objetivos y las actividades del Ministerio Superior de Salud y, en particular, el trabajo de los inspectores sanitarios. Monuments of progress ofrece un panorama de la historia de la medicina y la salud pública a través de la historia de las epidemias y de los actos heroicos de los médicos, apoyado en una perspectiva de la salud pública más amplia. Se presenta la relación entre los ideales ilustrados de aseo e higiene y las iniciativas del gobierno mexicano en materia de salud pública. Esta obra representa una contribución al reducido, pero creciente, corpus de literatura sobre la historia de la salud pública en Latinoamérica y el progresivo interés en la historia social y cultural de la salud pública.
In this book, Claudia Agostoni examines the modernization of Mexico City during the Porfirian era. She also analyzes the objectives and activities of the Ministry of Health, particularly the work of the health inspectors. Monuments of Progress provides an overview of the history of medicine and public health through the history of epidemics and the heroic deeds of doctors, based on a broader public health perspective. It shows the link between the enlightened ideals of cleanliness and hygiene and the Mexican government's initiatives regarding public health. This work makes a contribution to the small but growing corpus of literature on the history of public health in Latin America and the progressive interest in the social and cultural history of public health.
List of illustrationsList of tablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Urban ideas and Projects for Mexico City: The Late Eighteenth CenturyUrban Space and Public HealthThe Unsanitary CityViceroy Revillagigedo and Urban Sanitation2. The Control of the EnvironmentThe Community of HygienistsThe Contradictory Proofs of Progress and the CityDangerous ElementsElements of a Healthy City3. The Expansion and Diagnosis of the CityThe Expansion of the CityThe Superior Sanitation Council and the Sanitary CodeThe Memoirs of the Sanitary InspectorsThe Diagnoses of the City4. The Modern CityTowards the Secular CityThe Image of the Modern CityMonuments and the 1877 DecreeCuauhtémocAhuítzotl and ItzcóatlBenito Juárez and IndependenceMonumental Space and CleanlinessThe Conquest of WaterThe Problem: WaterThe Drainage SystemThe Sewage SystemHygiene in the Centennial Celebrations and the Porfirian InheritanceEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex