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A organização do serviço sanitário em Manaus : sanitaristas e suas práticas de intervenção (1891-1920) / Sebastião Rocha da Silva Filho.
LIBRA RA464.M25 S55 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silva Filho, Sebastião Rocha da, author.
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Brazil--Manaus--History.
- Public health.
- Public health personnel--Brazil--Manaus--History.
- Public health personnel.
- Epidemics--Brazil--Manaus--History.
- Epidemics.
- History.
- Brazil--Manaus.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manaus, AM : Valer Editora : FAPEAM, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas, 2015.
- Summary:
- The current research analyses the work of the sanitary services in Manaus, Brazil, concentrating on the struggle against yellow fever, malaria and tuberculosis, between the years of 1891 and 1920. This institution worked as a regulating and civilizing element in the social space of the city. The book proposes to understand the theme of public health conveyed by the administrative and functional organizations of the various regulators that ruled the public health in the city of Manaus during that period.
- Notes:
- Originally presented in 2013 as the author's thesis (masters)--Universidade Federal do Amazonas.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239).
- ISBN:
- 9788575127766
- 8575127764
- OCLC:
- 985511340
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