Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Julyan G. Peard

Book Overview

Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.
Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323974
• ISBN13: 9780822323976
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"