Race, Place, and Medicine
Subtitle: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780822323761
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History Of Medicine; Medical Anthropology; Tropical medicine; Medical; Brazil; Latin America - South America; Sociology - Social Theory; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; MEDICINE& MEDICAL HUMANITIES; Bahia (State); Anthropology - General; 19th century; Escola Tropicalista Bahiana; History; Medicine
First sentence: When in 1865 in Salvador da Bahia some fourteen doctors started meeting regularly to discuss their local cases and original research, they initiated one of the few significant episodes of successful science in nineteenth-century Brazil and, indeed, in Latin America.