Brazil has one of the largest groups of scholars dedicated to the history of medicine and health. They have also organized, thanks to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a massive institution of social medicine and biology in Rio de Janeiro. In 1986, Fiocruz added a center for the history and memory of science and health, and over the last 30 years, it has grown an impressive graduate program and edited one of Brazil's best journals. Since 2013, more than 250 books have been published in its Health in Debate series. The three editors of História da saúde no Brasil are busy publishing research and leading scholarly activities in Brazil. Their new book demonstrates a wide range and depth of scholarship. We may accept their claim, put forth in the introduction, that this book offers “authors, references, and themes that display the current state of the history of health in Brazil”...
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August 01 2020
História da saúde no Brasil
História da saúde no Brasil
. Edited by Teixeira, Luiz Antonio, Pimenta, Tânia Salgado, and Hochman, Gilberto. Saúde em Debate
. São Paulo
: Hucitec Editora
, 2018
. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index
. 485
pp. Paper.Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 544–546.
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Ian Read; História da saúde no Brasil. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2020; 100 (3): 544–546. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8349961
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