PUTTING SICKNESS INTO CONTEXT: PHYSICAL EDUCATION, FOOTBALL AND TUBERCULOSIS IN MODERN BUENOS AIRES

Authors

  • Diego ARMUS Departamento de Historia, Swarthmore College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/eishir.v3i5.232

Keywords:

Disease, history, football/soccer, childhood, gymnastics

Abstract

This article argues that history is more than discourses. It uses the case of football/soccer in order to explore the tensions that crisscross professional discourses –those articulated by the emergent physical education professors- and corporal practices –those of children inside and outside primary school- since the end of the 19th century up to the 1950s. The discussion aims at weaving these issues with two key issues of the period: the construction of the “Argentine race” and the history of tuberculosis.

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Published

2013-05-10

How to Cite

ARMUS, D. (2013). PUTTING SICKNESS INTO CONTEXT: PHYSICAL EDUCATION, FOOTBALL AND TUBERCULOSIS IN MODERN BUENOS AIRES. Estudios Del ISHiR, 3(5), 7–31. https://doi.org/10.35305/eishir.v3i5.232