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The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930
Gilberto Hochman
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Description for The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930
Hardback. Translator(s): Whitty, Diane Grosklaus. Series: Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JP; MBNH2; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies Series
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040610
SKU
V9780252040610
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About Gilberto Hochman
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.
Reviews for The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930
"This book is an overdue and essential contribution to the literature in English on the history of health, state formation, and Brazilian political and social history."
The Americas "We are very fortunate to have this lucid translation of Gilberto Hochman's brilliant study of the expansion of public health in early twentieth century Brazil, a complex process that involved ideological and ... Read more
The Americas "We are very fortunate to have this lucid translation of Gilberto Hochman's brilliant study of the expansion of public health in early twentieth century Brazil, a complex process that involved ideological and ... Read more