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Activist Biology
Activist Biology is the story of a group of biologists at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro who joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. It offers a portrait of science as a creative and transformative pathway. This book will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history and Latin American political and social life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Big Water
"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher.
The Interior
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions. In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain “clinging to the coastline, like crabs.” From their perspective, the vast Brazilian interior seemed like an untapped expanse waiting to be explored and colonized. This divide between a thriving coastal area and a less-developed hinterland has become deeply ingrained in the nation’s collective imagination, perpetuating the notion of the interior as a homogeneous, stagnant periphery awaiting the dynamic influence of coastal Brazil. The Interior challenges these narratives and reexamines the history ...
Guaraná
In this sweeping chronicle of guaraná—a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plant—Seth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself. The story begins with guaraná as the pre-Columbian cultivar of the Sateré-Mawé people in the Lower Amazon region, where it figured centrally in the Indigenous nation’s origin stories, dietary regimes, and communal ceremonies. During subsequent centuries of Portuguese colonialism and Brazilian rule, guaraná was reformulated by settlers, scientists, folklorists, food technologists, and marketers. Whether in search of pleasure, profits, professional distinction, or patriotic markers, promote...
Viruses and Reproductive Injustice
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy explores the complicated health disparities and reproductive injustice that led to these cases of congenital Zika syndrome. Löwy examines the history of the outbreak in Brazil and connects it to broader questions conc...
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts at...
Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil
This timely examination of hydropower in Brazil brings nuance to energy debates, centring social and environmental justice.
Economic History of Living Standards in Brazil
Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It draws on anthropometric data and an interdisciplinary approach to illuminate the profound socioeconomic transformations that unfolded in Brazil during this period. Through an analysis of archival military and passport records, the book reveals an increase in heights starting in the 1880s, predating the Vargas Era’s economic growth and social reforms. It also offers novel insights into Brazil’s regional development divide, showing that regional height differentials existed as early as the mid-nineteenth centur...
Ambiente, saúde, sustentabilidade
Esta extensa e abrangente coletânea traz à tona, em 45 capítulos, questões polêmicas relacionadas aos limites da convivência entre o modo de viver do ser humano e a preservação do ambiente, e seus efeitos na saúde física e mental, que devem gerar novos desafios na formulação de políticas públicas. Os autores nos mostram que agendas diferenciadas para a redução dos riscos à saúde e a preservação ambiental só serão possíveis com a construção de uma agenda nacional e local que integre saúde, ambiente e sustentabilidade, envolvendo a discussão em torno das disparidades econômicas e sociais entre os países, estados e localidades, e fortalecendo a articulação dos aspectos socioeconômicos, ambientais e de saúde. O livro, projeto ambicioso que une 126 autores, referências em suas áreas, oferece um rico e profundo material para profissionais, pesquisadores, gestores e estudantes que atuam com os temas de saúde, ambiente e sustentabilidade.
