The Sanitation of Brazil : Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 / Gilberto Hochman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochman, Gilberto.

Contributor:

Grosklaus Whitty, Diane R., translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil.

Medical Subjects:

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 and material interests. Politicians weighed the costs and benefits of state-run public health versus the burdens imposed by disease. Physicians and intellectuals, meanwhile, swayed them with warnings that endemic disease and official neglect might affect everyone--rich and poor, rural and urban, interior and coastal--if left unchecked. The book shows how disease and health were and are associated with nation-state building in Brazil.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 When Health Becomes Public: State Formation and Health Policies in Brazil

ch. 2 The Microbe of Disease and Public Power: The Public Health Movement and a Growing Consciousness of Interdependence

ch. 3 Public Health Reform; or, Who Should Be Responsible for Communicable Diseases?

ch. 4 Consciousness Converges with Interests: A National Public Health Policy

ch. 5 Sao Paulo Exceptionalism? Political Autonomy and Public Health Interdependence

ch. 6 Final Thoughts.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Hochman, Gilberto. Era do Saneamento : as bases da política de saúde pública no Brasil . English.

ISBN:

9780252099052

0252099052

OCLC:

964293919