Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge

Author/Contributor(s):	Delaporte, Francois
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	08/14/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge, François Delaporte describes how the interaction of public health policy with medical knowledge and epistemological transformations in the period 1900-1935 can account for the discovery of a continental endemic. It also deconstructs the myths that surround a number of major medical discoveries in both Brazil and Argentina.