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Cortiços e epidemias na Corte Imperial, São Paulo. SIDNEY CHALHOUB: Companhia das Letras, 1996.

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: This volume is an updated version of the author's Tese de Livre Docência (a thesis after the Ph.D. which is required in certain Brazilian universities for promotion) submitted to his university (Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP), one of the most prestigious in Brazil. The book is a social history of medicine, concentrating on diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, although tuberculosis is also discussed and some degree of comparison is made with other places and times.

Source: EIAL - Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe

DOI: 10.61490/eial.v12i1.1031

Author: Joel Outtes

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: History of Medicine and Tropical Health

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2191567115

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