Death is all around us : corpses, chaos, and public health in Porfirian Mexico City /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weber, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:	Mexican experience.
Subjects:	Public health > Mexico > Mexico City > History. Corpse removals > Mexico > Mexico City > History. Public Health. Death. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.