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

Author/Contributor(s):	Peard, Julyan G
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/10/2000
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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