Title: Cidade febril
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Yellow fever, History, Public Health, Freed persons, Slums, Epidemics
Places: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: RA644.Y4 C43 1996