Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Weber, Jonathan M.
Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Weber, Jonathan M.

Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City

Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen...
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Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Weber, Jonathan M.

Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City

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Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Weber, Jonathan M.

Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City

$101.93
Author: Jonathan M. Weber
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the streets of Mexico City, making the capital city one of the most unsanitary places in the Western Hemisphere.

In light of such startling scenes, in Death Is All around Us Jonathan M. Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Díaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city. By reducing the high mortality rate, state officials believed that Mexico City would be seen as a more modern and viable capital in North America. To this end the government used new forms of technology and scientific knowledge to deal with the thousands of unidentified and unburied corpses found in hospital morgues and cemeteries and on the streets. Tackling the central question of how the government used the latest technological and scientific advancements to persuade citizens and foreigners alike that the capital city--and thus Mexico as a whole--was capable of resolving the hygienic issues plaguing the city, Weber explores how the state's attempts to exert control over procedures of death and burial became a powerful weapon for controlling the behavior of its citizens.


Author: Jonathan M. Weber
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781496213440

About the Author
Jonathan M. Weber is a teacher and independent scholar living in Dallas, Texas. He received his PhD from the Department of History at Florida State University in 2013 and has worked in a wide range of archives in the United States and Mexico to research this study. He has presented this work at more than a dozen conferences, including the American Historical Association, Latin American Studies Association, and the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.


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