Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910

In this groundbreaking book, Claudia Agostoni examines modernization in Mexico City during the era of Porfirio Diaz. With detailed analyses of the objectives and activities of the Superior Sanitation Council, and, in particular, the work of the sanitary inspectors, Monuments of Progress : Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910 provides a fresh take on the history of medicine and public health by shifting away from the history of epidemic disease and heroic accounts of medic…