CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. Symptoms -- ONE: Barbarism and the Civilizing Sciences -- Barbarism in a Young and Fertile Country -- Civilizing the Pampa: Transcending the Nation's Past -- ''To Govern Is to Populate'': Importing Whiteness -- The Generation of 1880: Making a Great Nation -- TWO: The Rise of the Social Pathologists: Merging Science and the State -- Argentina, the Idea of Europe, and Racial Implications -- ''In the Echo of Your Progress'': A Transatlantic Conversation -- An Alliance of State and Science for the Advancement of Hygiene -- The Medical Policing of the ''Born Criminal'' -- PART II. Diagnosis -- THREE: A National Science to Investigate the ''Abnormal Individual'' -- ''A Study of Our Own Criminality'': Measuring Social Pathology -- A Synthetic Program of Psychopathology -- A Taxonomy of Delinquents and Deviants -- ''A Useful Exaggeration'': Classification and Race -- FOUR: Defects of Organic Constitution: Degeneration of the Nation's ''Germ Plasm'' -- Unnatural Sex: Female Hysteria and Other Psychoses -- The Urban Male Criminal: Indolence, Regressive Heredity, and Alcoholism -- ''A Foreign and Hostile Horde'': The Crowd -- The Worst Type of Criminal: The Anarchist of ''Degenerate Lineage'' -- PART III. Prescriptions -- FIVE: Women Confined to Save the Future Nation: Home and Houses of Deposit -- The ''Pride of the Kitchen, Bedroom, and Parlor'' but Prone to Hysteria -- Wayward Wives, Women on Deposit, and Feminist Responses -- Regulating the Pathological Prostitute -- The Civilizing Influence of Mothers and the ''Improvement of the Species'' -- SIX: Men on the Street: A Threat to ''Our Industrial and Social Organization'' -- Social Parasites Who ''Refuse to Obey the Natural Law of Work'' -- Men in Groups: ''A Very Grave Danger to the Public Order'' -- A Science of Political Policing.

''Our Police Have Obtained a Complete Success'': Fingerprinting the Masses -- SEVEN: Places of Regeneration: Prison and Asylum as ''Medicine for the Soul'' -- ''Moral Orthopedics'': Specialized Institutions for the Mentally Ill, Women, and Juveniles -- ''A System of Rational Separation'': The National Penitentiary -- ''True Innovation in the Study of the Criminal'': The Criminology Institute -- Regeneration through the ''Love of Work'' and Civic Morals -- PART IV. Hygiene -- EIGHT: Public Hygiene against Foreign Contagion and ''Sanitary Anarchy'' -- Public Hygiene as a ''Material Religion'' -- ''Selective Immigration with Scientific Criteria'': A Solution to ''Deplorable Ethnic Conditions'' -- Fingerprinting Foreigners to Inoculate against ''Pernicious Elements'' -- NINE: To ''Formulate a New Race, the Argentine Race,'' for Democracy and Civic Regeneration -- Weighing and Measuring the Words of Law: Legal Codes and Civic Responsibility -- Determining Dangerousness to Ensure Maximum Social Security -- ''Cover Them with the Flag'': Naturalization and Citizenship -- The ''Intelligent Incorporation'' of the Immigrant -- TEN: ''Fully Attacking the Source of Moral Infection'': Purging the Nation of Incurables -- ''Preventive-Social Hygiene'': A Permanent Segregation of the Dangerous Element -- Perfecting the Social and Legal Order: Fingerprinting as Prophylaxis -- ''Errors of Sex'': Social Prophylaxis and Sexual Control -- AFTERWORD: A ''New Civilization'' Shaped by Science: Its Paradoxes and Its Consequences -- NOTES -- ESSAY ON SOURCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.