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Race, Place, and Medicine
Julyan G. Peard
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Description for Race, Place, and Medicine
paperback. Showing how imported models of tropical medicine - constructed by colonial nations - downplayed the connection between socioeconomic factors and tropical disorders, this study of a neglected episode in Latin American history will interest Brazilianists, as well as scholars of Latin American, medical, and scientific history. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLW; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.
Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those of temperate Europe. They carried out innovative research on parasitology, ... Read more
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.
Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those of temperate Europe. They carried out innovative research on parasitology, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323976
SKU
V9780822323976
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About Julyan G. Peard
Julyan G. Peard is Associate Professor of Latin American History at San Francisco State University.
Reviews for Race, Place, and Medicine
“Race, Place, and Medicine makes an important contribution to a number of fields by using medical history as a portal to a broader discussion of Brazilian national identity.”— Jeffrey Lesser, author of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil “A very impressive and original study that is a welcome addition to what is currently a ... Read more