Article ID: CBB001420635

Insalubridade, doenças e imigração: visões alemãs sobre o Brasil (2013)

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In the period stretching from the birth of the German Empire through the rise of Nazism and the Third Reich, the article explores the themes of unhealthiness, acclimatization, and disease in Brazil as found in the writings of German-speaking travelers who were involved with the immigration question. On the one hand, Brazil was considered quite suitable as an immigration destination, especially in comparison to Africa and the United States; on the other, immigrants might be scared off by its climate and by the menace of diseases like yellow fever, malaria, tuberculosis, and worms, along with insect plagues and venomous animals. The question here is how authors with different profiles - 'colonial politicians,' immigrants, men of letters who were forced to emigrate, and scientists - approached these 'threats,' considering that their readers would be (potential) immigrants.

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Authors & Contributors
Silva, André Felipe Cândido da
Benchimol, Jaime Larry
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Cagle, Hugh
McCrea, Heather
Wulf, Stefan
Concepts
Tropical medicine
Malaria
Public health
Colonialism
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
16th century
Enlightenment
18th century
Places
Brazil
Germany
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
India
Great Britain
Tropics
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Hamburg Tropical Institute
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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