Living and Dying in São Paulo
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Duke University Press
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Duke University Press Books
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Jeffrey Lesser focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.
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Health;immigration;built environment;well-being;disease;urbanization;national identities;oral history;Bom Retiro;health geographies;citizenship;mosquitos;acculturation;smallpox;1888 Smallpox outbreak;health policing;Police Medical Assistance Unit;micro-geographies;Central Disinfectory;Zika;1899 bubonic plague;bubonic plague 1899, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas, thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America::1KLS South America, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies, thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America::1KLS South America::1KLSB Brazil, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology, thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine