Race, Place, and Medicine
Subtitle: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: July 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780822323976
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Brazil; Social Science; Sociology; Latin America - South America; Sociology - Social Theory; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; MEDICINE& MEDICAL HUMANITIES; Bahia (State); Tropical medicine; 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.