Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Julyan G. Peard - 2000-03-20

Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Duke University Press. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Duke University Press Books. New. 2000. Softcover. 0822323974 . 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 328 pages .

Duke University Press, 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780822323976

ISBN: 9780822323976
Duke University Press Books : 01 July 2000
Paperback :328 pages
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil. Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those of temperate Europe. They carried out innovative research on parasitology, herpetology, and tropical disorders, providing evidence that countered European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority. In the face of European fatalism about health care in the tropics, the Tropicalistas forged a distinctive medicine based on… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. Showing how imported models of tropical medicine - constructed by colonial nations - downplayed the connection between socioeconomic factors and tropical disorders, this study of a neglected episode in Latin American history will interest Brazilianists, as well as scholars of Latin American, medical, and scientific history.

Duke Univ Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 315 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.25 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Duke Univ Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 315 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.25 inches.