Injecting modernity: regulating hygiene in Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico.
Public hygiene discourse in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries positioned the human body as an object requiring hygienic treatment. In Oaxaca, Mexico the legislation designed to "inject modernity" functioned as a tool to control the lives of the socially and politically "unhygi...
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