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Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil - Peard, Julyan G
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Looks at a group of 19th century Brazilian doctors, the Bahian Tropicalista School, and their efforts to both counter European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority and doomed health and to forge their own definition of tropical medi

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Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 2000, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822323976

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Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 2000, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822323761

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