Title: Cidade febril :
Authors: Chalhoub, Sidney
Date: 1996
Publisher: Companhia das letras,
Physical description: 250 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language: Portuguese
LC classification: R
Abstract: "Well-researched and theoretically informed study of origins and application of the 'ideology of hygiene' in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro. Gives particular attention to effects of destruction of slums (seen as centers of yellow fever infection) and to 19th-century development of popular resistance to small pox vaccination"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes notes, bibliographical references, and index (p. 187-250).
Subject headings (LCSH): Epidemics--Brazil--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.; Freed persons--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--19th century.; Public health--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.; Slums--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro; Yellow fever--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--19th century.