The emergence of social modernity in the Romanian principalities can be traced to the founding of quarantinist outposts against the last waves of plague and the first waves of cholera. The crisis of this sanitary arrangement opened the way for a series of failed but productive projects of modernization. The collective political body was imagined and created through the nationalization of the medical profession and the attempts to create a sanitary social body. The failure to connect urban and rural bodies inside a democratic all-embracing network opened up spaces for discourses questioning the identity of the collective body. Was there a “Romanian element”? What did that mean and was it degenerating? Demographic anti-Semitism and the first attempts to think of socioeconomic and sanitary failures in terms of racial degeneracy emerged from the fissures of the national sanitary system. Bacteriology was able to partially absorb these critiques and propose a larger interventionist project in the space opened by the old-style sanitary police.

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十九世纪罗马尼亚的霍乱、人人享有健康、国家建设和种族退化

罗马尼亚公国社会现代性的出现可以追溯到隔离前哨站的建立，以对抗最后一波瘟疫和第一波霍乱。这种卫生设施的危机为一系列失败但富有成效的现代化项目开辟了道路。集体政治体是通过医疗行业的国有化和创建卫生社会体的尝试而想象和创建的。在一个民主的无所不包的网络中连接城市和农村机构的失败为质疑集体机构身份的话语开辟了空间。有没有“罗马尼亚元素”？那是什么意思，它是否正在退化？人口反犹太主义和第一次尝试从种族退化的角度思考社会经济和卫生方面的失败，出现在国家卫生系统的裂痕中。细菌学能够部分吸收这些批评，并在旧式卫生警察开辟的空间中提出一个更大的干预项目。