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Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those of temperate Europe. They carried out innovative research on parasitology, herpetology, and tropical disorders, providing evidence that countered European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority. In the face of European fatalism about health care in the tropics, the Tropicalistas forged a distinctive medicine based on their beliefs that public health would improve only if large social issues-such as slavery and abolition-were addressed and that the delivery of health care should encompass groups hitherto outside the doctors' sphere, especially women. But the Tropicalistas' agenda, which included biting social critiques and broad demands for the extension of health measures to all of Brazil's people, was not sustained. Race, Place, and Medicine shows how imported models of tropical medicine-constructed by colonial nations for their own needs-downplayed the connection between socioeconomic factors and tropical disorders.This study of a neglected episode in Latin American history will interest Brazilianists, as well as scholars of Latin American, medical, and scientific history.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

10 avril 2000

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822381280

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

RACE, PL ACE, AND MEDICINE

RACE,PL ACE, ANDMEDICINE

The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century

BrazilianMedicine

Julyan G. Peard

DukeUniversityPress

Durham and London 

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper "

Typeset in Carter & Cone Galliard by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

For Lalo and Maxine

CONTENTS

Acknowledgmentsix

Introduction 

Chapter OneThe Escola Tropicalista Bahiana: A Creative Response in Adversity 

Chapter TwoThe Politics of Disease

Chapter ThreedecietM,ni:eRalimace,C FramingTropicalDisorders

Chapter FoureminBnhaaiPhysiciansandWo

Chapter FiveMoving into Mainstream

Conclusion 

Appendix  

Appendix  

Appendix  

Notes 

Primary Sources 

Bibliography 

Index 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In researching and writing this book I have become indebted to many people. Kátia M. de Queirós Mattoso ﬁrst told me about the Bahian doc-tors when she was a visiting professor at Columbia University many years ago. In Salvador, Maria José Rabello de Freitas, then Director of the Memorial da Medicina, and historian Consuelo Pondé de Sena were par-ticularly helpful in locating sources and directing me to various archives in the city. I also used sources from the collections at the National Library of Medicine at Bethesda, the Health Sciences Library at Columbia, the National Academy of Medicine, New York, and the Paul and Lydia Kal-manovitz Library at the University of California at San Francisco. I would like to thank the librarians at all these institutions for their invaluable help. My research was funded in part by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in , a Travel to Collections grant and a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities in  and , a San Francisco State University Aﬃrmative Action Award in , and a Sabbatical Grant in . I am deeply grateful to all these in-stitutions. Parts of chapters , , and  appeared as ‘‘Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the ‘Escola Tropicalista Bahiana,’ –,’’ inWarmClimates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, –,ed. David Arnold (Amsterdam: Rodopi, ) –; and ‘‘Tropical Disorders and the Forging of a Brazilian Medical Identity, –,’’Hispanic American Historical Review (): –. I would especially like to thank Nancy Leys Stepan, who always pro-vided intellectual support and strong encouragement; Herbert Klein, who kept on prodding me to get the project ﬁnished; Marcos Cueto, who was

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