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Living and dying in São Paulo : immigrants, health, and the built environment in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lesser, Jeff, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Brazil--São Paulo.
- Public health.
- Environmental health--Brazil--São Paulo.
- Environmental health.
- Social classes--Health aspects--Brazil--São Paulo.
- Social classes.
- Immigrants--Health and hygiene--Brazil--São Paulo.
- Immigrants.
- Bom Retiro (São Paulo, Brazil)--Social conditions.
- Bom Retiro (São Paulo, Brazil).
- Bom Retiro (São Paulo, Brazil)--Emigration and immigration--Health aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Living and Dying in São Paulo focuses on the neighborhood of Bom Retiro, home to many successive generations of racialized immigrant families, to explore questions of public health and epidemiology as they relate to spatial development, class stigmatization, and ethnic stereotyping. Jeffrey Lesser employs a range of sources and methods to analyze the fraught interactions between the Bom Retiro community and the state agencies and health professionals that oversaw community sanitation efforts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Lesser is particularly interested in the story told by the infrastructural history of Bom Retiro and pays close attention to the construction of hospitals and health clinics, employing the metaphor of "residue" to convey the historical, ideological, and social legacies that structure daily life, spatial configurations, and health outcomes in the neighborhood"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Naming a death
- Bom Retiro Is the world?
- Bad health in a good retreat
- Enforcing health
- A building block of health
- Unliving rats and undead immigrants.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lesser, Jeff. Living and dying in São Paulo.
- ISBN:
- 9781478094111
- 1478094117
- 9781478059936
- 1478059931
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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