[The cholera epidemics in Córdoba as seen through the press: the supply of preservatives and cures during the 1867-1868 epidemic].
Disease is always represented a moment of crisis for individuals and societies. When death brought by disease hangs heavy over societies, they are lead to develop strategies to prevent and cure it. Epidemics, especially cholera epidemics, have had a strong impact on Argentine society, especially on Cordoba residents, because the first cholera outbreak was highly devastating in both demographic and social terms. In this article we analyze the supply of products that were advertised in the press during the first epidemic, which broke out in 1867-68. Our basic hypothesis is that the products available developed a widespread trade that was not the object of commercial transactions common to those social grouping during periods in which there were no epidemics. When they took place, those products were directed towards more affluent groups.
Carbonetti
Adrián
A
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades y del Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la UNC, Cordoba, Argentina. acarbonetti@cea.unc.edu.ar
Rodríguez
María Laura
ML
Noelia
Rimonda
R
Martina
Yamila
Y
D000329:Advertising / Q000266:history; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D002771:Cholera / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000266:history*; D009524:Newspapers as Topic / Q000266:history*