Book ID: CBB419167726

The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (2016)

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Hochman, Gilberto (Author)


University of Illinois Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 226 pages
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Hochman, Gilberto
Ersoy, Nermin
Akpinar, Aslihan
Roth, Cassia
Gungor, Yuksel
Fernanda Rebelo-Pinto
Concepts
Public health
Sanitation
Sewerage
Medicine and government
Prevention and control of disease
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Brazil
Great Britain
Amazon River Region (South America)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Argentina
United States
Institutions
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
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