Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a talk on his recently published book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán , Argentina, 1865-1908, at the University of California Riverside (UCR).

The talk centered on the the notions of medical governance and uncertainty in the 1886-87 epidemic. Dimas spoke on how new diseases and epidemics offered the nineteenth-century Argentine government moments to establish methods on responding to future medical crises and incorporated actors from the medical sciences as key members of the government.

The talk was co-sponsored by UCR's College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, history department, Center for Ideas and Society, Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, and the UCR School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities Research.