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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Biomedical Uncertainty and the Politics of Public Health
Part 1. Foundations and Context
1. A Garden in the Republic: Land, Labor, and Life in Nineteenth-Century Tucumán
2. The Global Age of Cholera: Argentina's Late Confrontation with Cholera
Part 2. Environments and Peripheries in the Fourth Pandemic
3. Regional Health: Cholera from the Frontlines of the Paraguayan War to Tucumán, 1865-67
4. Provincial Health: Contestations over Governance in Tucumán and the Limitations of Medicalization during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867-68
Part 3. The Politics of Contagion and Political Conflict
5. The Plague of Fear: The Politics of Sanitary Cordons and Questions of Governance in the National Cholera Epidemic of 1886-87
6. The Cholera Epidemic of 1886-87 in Tucumán: From Provincial Health to National Health
Part 4. Medical Expansion
7. Purifying the Land against Cholera: The Epidemic of 1894-95 and Medical Expansion in Tucumán during the Era of Reform
Epilogue: Uncertainty, Futility, and Thinking of Cholera under COVID-19
Notes
Bibliography
Index.