Focusing on the Bom Retiro neighborhood, Lesser analyzes the fraught relationship between residents and the state and healthcare agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship.
Focusing on the Bom Retiro neighborhood, Lesser analyzes the fraught relationship between residents and the state and healthcare agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship.
Jeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. He is the author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 and Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, both published by Duke University Press.
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A Long Set of Acknowledgments xi An Introduction: Selling a Gun 1 1. Naming a Death 31 2. Bom Retiro Is the World? 59 3. Bad Health in a Good Retreat 80 4. Enforcing Health 102 5. A Building Block of Health 130 6. Unliving Rats and Undead Immigrants 163 A Conclusion: Light and Dark in a Saintly City 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 249 Index 295
A Long Set of Acknowledgments xi An Introduction: Selling a Gun 1 1. Naming a Death 31 2. Bom Retiro Is the World? 59 3. Bad Health in a Good Retreat 80 4. Enforcing Health 102 5. A Building Block of Health 130 6. Unliving Rats and Undead Immigrants 163 A Conclusion: Light and Dark in a Saintly City 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 249 Index 295
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