Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies: The Sanitation of Brazil (ePub)

Celebrated as a major work since its original publication, The Sanitation of Brazil traces how rural health and sanitation policies influenced the formation of Brazil's national public health system. Gilberto Hochman's pioneering study examines the ideological, social and political forces that approached questions of health and government action. The era from 1910 to 1930 offered unique opportunities for public health reform, and Hochman examines its successes and failures. He looks at how health became a state concern, tying the emergence of public health policies to a nationalistic movement and to a convergence of the elites' social consciousness with their political and material interests. Politicians weighed the costs and benefits of state-run public health versus the burdens imposed by disease. Physicians and intellectuals, meanwhile, swayed them with warnings that endemic disease and official neglect might affect everyone—rich and poor, rural and urban, interior and coastal—if left unchecked. The book shows how disease and health were and are associated with nation-state building in Brazil.|
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Contents
Preface
Translator's Note
Chapter 1. When Health Becomes Public: State Formation and Health Policies in Brazil
Chapter 2. The Microbe of Disease and Public Power: The Public Health Movement and a Growing Consciousness of Interdependence
Chapter 3. Public Health Reform; or, Who Should Be Responsible for Communicable Diseases?
Chapter 4. Consciousness Converges with Interests: A National Public Health Policy
Chapter 5. São Paulo Exceptionalism?: Political Autonomy and Public Health Interdependence
Chapter 6. Final Thoughts
Appendix 1. Institutions, Agencies, and Departments
Appendix 2. States and Territories of Brazil under the First Republic (1889–1930)
Notes
Bibliography
Index|Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. His other books include Cuidar, Controlar, Curar and Políticas Públicas no Brasil, and Médicos Intérpretes do Brasil . Diane Grosklaus-Whitty 's translations include The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil .