Cidade febril
Subtitle: cortiços e epidemias na corte imperial
By: Sidney Chalhoub.
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [São Paulo, Brazil]
Language: por
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Yellow fever -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "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 bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.