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Traces of the Unseen
A richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also an increasingly available medium to chronicle the processes of modernization. Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America situates photography’s role in documenting the destruction wrought by infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and outside the Brazilian metropole. Combining formal analysis of individual photographs w...
An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics
An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it has evolved through periods of socio-environmental and cultural conflicts, the book chronicles multiple experiences of how people managed to negotiate multiple crises on a daily basis by often clinging to their age old cultural and healing practices, as well as the humanistic representation of such experiences in various fictional and nonfictional writings. The contributors expose the biopolitics around COVID-19 and its effects particularly on marg...
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...
Saúde e democracia
Trata-se de um dos mais abrangentes, profundos e qualificados exercícios analíticos sobre o sistema de saúde brasileiro desenvolvido nos últimos anos. O livro inclui artigos de diferentes autores sobre as diversas fases do SUS, abordando temas como situação de saúde, financiamento do SUS, C&T em saúde, os trabalhadores da saúde no país, a descentralização, os conceitos de saúde, a universalização versus a focalização, o público e o privado, o modelo de atenção à saúde praticado e a estratégia da saúde da família.
Uma escola para a saúde
O livro apresenta os caminhos percorridos na direção da profissionalização e da especialização em saúde pública no Brasil, refletindo as influências e iniciativas nacionais e internacionais.na criação da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (Ensp), em 1954. Nesse laboratório de idéias em que se constituiu a Escola, formularam-se propostas que contribuíram para as grandes conquistas da saúde pública brasileira e que subsidiaram o processo de Reforma Sanitária, cujos resultados se expressam na constituição e no fortalecimento do SUS. Organizado em duas partes, na primeira é apresentado um texto narrativo sucinto sobre a Ensp, desde a sua criação até os anos recentes. A segunda, traz artigos sobre temas relevantes para o entendimento da história da Ensp e de seu papel na saúde pública contemporânea.
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
DIVHow the Xavante Indians have reshaped the Brazilian government’s policies of nationalism and assimiliation./div
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, and the Arab world. This Handbook is unique among other disability history texts in that it engages simultaneously in methodological and historiographic debates and in a further articulation and analysis of the lived experiences of disabled people.
The Tribute of Blood
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers. Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and histori...
Reasoning Against Madness
Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalization
