"Living and Dying in São Paulo focuses on the neighborhood of Bom Retiro, home to many successive generations of racialized immigrant families, to explore questions of public health and epidemiology as they relate to spatial development, class stigmatization, and ethnic stereotyping. Jeffrey Lesser employs a range of sources and methods to analyze the fraught interactions between the Bom Retiro community and the state agencies and health professionals that oversaw community sanitation efforts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Lesser is particularly interested in the story told by the infrastructural history of Bom Retiro and pays close attention to the construction of hospitals and health clinics, employing the metaphor of "residue" to convey the historical, ideological, and social legacies that structure daily life, spatial configurations, and health outcomes in the |