Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Julyan G. Peard
Looks at a group of 19th century Brazilian doctors, the Bahian Tropicalista School, and their efforts to both counter European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority and doomed health and to forge their own definition of tropical medi
Year:
2000
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
326
ISBN 10:
0822381281
ISBN 13:
9780822381280
File:
PDF, 2.09 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000