The Sanitation of Brazil

Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930

Gilberto Hochman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04061-0 (ISBN)

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Celebrated as a major work since its original publication, The Sanitation of Brazil traces how rural health and sanitation policies influenced the formation of Brazil's national public health system. Gilberto Hochman's pioneering study examines the ideological, social and political forces that approached questions of health and government action. The era from 1910 to 1930 offered unique opportunities for public health reform, and Hochman examines its successes and failures. He looks at how health became a state concern, tying the emergence of public health policies to a nationalistic movement and to a convergence of the elites' social consciousness with their political and material interests. Politicians weighed the costs and benefits of state-run public health versus the burdens imposed by disease. Physicians and intellectuals, meanwhile, swayed them with warnings that endemic disease and official neglect might affect everyone--rich and poor, rural and urban, interior and coastal--if left unchecked. The book shows how disease and health were and are associated with nation-state building in Brazil.

Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. His other books include Cuidar, Controlar, Curar, Políticas Públicas no Brasil, and Médicos Intérpretes do Brasil. Diane Grosklaus Whitty's translations include The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Series
Übersetzer	Diane Grosklaus Whitty
Zusatzinfo	5 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-04061-9 / 0252040619
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04061-0 / 9780252040610
Zustand	Neuware