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Race, place, and medicine : the idea of the tropics in nineteenth century Brazilian medicine / Julyan G. Beard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peard, Julyan G.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Escola Tropicalista Bahiana--History--19th century.
- Escola Tropicalista Bahiana.
- Tropical medicine--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History--19th century.
- Tropical medicine.
- Medicine--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 1 The Escola Tropicalista Bahiana: A Creative Response in Adversity
- 2 The Politics of Disease
- 3 Race, Climate, Medicine: Framing Tropical Disorders
- 4 Physicians and Women in Bahia
- 5 Moving into Mainstream.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-304 ) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903946
- 9781282903944
- 1282903942
- 9780822381280
- 0822381281
- OCLC:
- 850214624
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