title: [The wind prophylaxis. Repressive and sanitary institutions in Argentina's Patagonia, 1880-1940].
abstract: This article focuses on the study of some social control technologies and discourses, displayed in Argentina's provinces between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the so-called 'Territorios Nacionales' of La Pampa Río Negro and Neuquén, which were submitted to a direct federal authority. THe main purpose is to analyze - within these areas- - the building of repressive and sanitary institutions (i.e., police, prisons, asylums, hospitals) as well as the enforcement of positivists studying and classifying methodologies, intended to identify 'abnormality'. A straight and permanent rule of these "territorios Nacionales' on the federal State could have meant a longer attention to their social and economic development through a direct and intense presence of national, modernizing, positivist institutions. However, a deeper historical study of repressive and sanitary institutions allows to arrive to completely different conclusions. The sources show that these institutions had numerous daily problems, were frequently and severely under-budgeted and were obliged to develop not originally forseen functions and tasks. These situations imply revising not only these institutions' real regulation capacities but also the very existence of a generalized, efficient social control programme in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century, as many scholars focused on Buenos Aires's study case have already argued.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bohoslavsky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Silva di Liscia
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina / Q000208:ethnology; D006307:Health Systems Agencies / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D011330:Prisons / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012918:Social Alienation / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D011049:Social Control Policies / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology