Living and Dying in São Paulo

Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil

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Author(s)
Jeffrey Lesser
Language
English
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Abstract
Jeffery Lesser focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100093
Keywords
Health;immigration;built environment;well-being;disease;urbanization;national identities;oral history;Bom Retiro;health geographies;citizenship;mosquitos;acculturation;smallpox;1888 Smallpox outbreak;health policing;Police Medical Assistance Unit;micro-geographies;Central Disinfectory;Zika;1899 bubonic plague;bubonic plague 1899
DOI
10.1215/9781478059936
ISBN
9781478030980, 9781478026723, 9781478059936, 9781478094111
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, 2025
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Imprint
Duke University Press Books
Classification
History of the Americas
South America
Ethnic studies
Brazil
Anthropology
Public health and preventive medicine
Pages
321
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/