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The Sanitation of Brazil - Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (Hardcover)
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The Sanitation of Brazil - Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (Hardcover)
Series: Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Series
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Celebrated as a major work since its original publication, The
Sanitation of Brazil traces how rural health and sanitation
policies influenced the formation of Brazil's national public
health system. Gilberto Hochman's pioneering study examines the
ideological, social and political forces that approached questions
of health and government action. The era from 1910 to 1930 offered
unique opportunities for public health reform, and Hochman examines
its successes and failures. He looks at how health became a state
concern, tying the emergence of public health policies to a
nationalistic movement and to a convergence of the elites' social
consciousness with their political and material interests.
Politicians weighed the costs and benefits of state-run public
health versus the burdens imposed by disease. Physicians and
intellectuals, meanwhile, swayed them with warnings that endemic
disease and official neglect might affect everyone--rich and poor,
rural and urban, interior and coastal--if left unchecked. The book
shows how disease and health were and are associated with
nation-state building in Brazil.
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