03328nam 22005535 450 99665945800331620250705110028.09781478094111147809411710.1515/9781478094111(CKB)38120895400041(DE-B1597)773900(DE-B1597)9781478094111(ODN)ODN0011723187(EXLCZ)993812089540004120250423h20252025 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiving and Dying in São Paulo Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil /Jeffrey Lesser2025Durham : Duke University Press, [2025]20251 online resource (319 p.)9781478026723 1478026723 Frontmatter -- contents -- A Long Set Of Acknowledgments -- An Introduction -- 1 Naming a Death -- 2 Bom Retiro Is the World? -- 3 Bad Health in a Good Retreat -- 4 Enforcing Health -- 5 A Building Block of Health -- 6 Unliving Rats and Undead Immigrants -- A Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThere is a saying in Brazil: “Mosquitoes are democratic: they bite the rich and the poor alike.” Why then is bad health---from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue---dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups? In Living and Dying in São Paulo, Jeffrey Lesser focuses on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to explore such questions by examining the competing visions of well-being in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. He analyzes the fraught relationship between Bom Retiro residents and the state and health care agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship. Lesser employs the concept of “residues” to outline how continuing historical material, legislative, and social legacies structure contemporary daily life and health outcomes in the neighborhood. In so doing, Lesser creates a dialogue between the past and the present, showing how the relationship between culture and disease is both layered and interconnected.Environmental healthBrazilSão PauloImmigrantsHealth and hygieneBrazilSão PauloPublic healthBrazilSão PauloSocial classesHealth aspectsBrazilSão PauloHISTORY / Latin America / South AmericabisacshEnvironmental healthImmigrantsHealth and hygienePublic healthSocial classesHealth aspectsHISTORY / Latin America / South America.HIS033000MED078000SOC008050bisacshLesser Jeffrey, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1015475Emory Universityfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996659458003316Living and Dying in São Paulo4375813UNISA