Living and Dying in São Paulo : Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil

Jeffrey Lesser

doi:10.1215/9781478059936

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Jeffrey Lesser

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English

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Abstract

Jeffrey Lesser focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157529

Keywords

Health;immigration;built environment;well-being;disease;urbanization;national identities;oral history;Bom Retiro;health geographies;citizenship;mosquitos;acculturation;smallpox;1888 Smallpox outbreak;health policing;Police Medical Assistance Unit;micro-geographies;Central Disinfectory;Zika;1899 bubonic plague;bubonic plague 1899