LEADER 02442nam 2200397zu 450 001 9910987793103321 005 20250114201420.0 010 $a9781478059936 010 $a1478059931 035 $a(CKB)37190724900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937190724900041 100 $a20250114|2025uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aLiving and dying in Sa?o Paulo $eimmigrants, health, and the built environment in Brazil /$fJeffrey Lesser 210 $cDuke University Press$d2025 311 08$a9781478030980 311 08$a1478030984 327 $aNaming a death -- Bom Retiro Is the world? -- Bad health in a good retreat -- Enforcing health -- A building block of health -- Unliving rats and undead immigrants. 330 $a"Living and Dying in Sa?o Paulo focuses on the neighborhood of Bom Retiro, home to many successive generations of racialized immigrant families, to explore questions of public health and epidemiology as they relate to spatial development, class stigmatization, and ethnic stereotyping. Jeffrey Lesser employs a range of sources and methods to analyze the fraught interactions between the Bom Retiro community and the state agencies and health professionals that oversaw community sanitation efforts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Lesser is particularly interested in the story told by the infrastructural history of Bom Retiro and pays close attention to the construction of hospitals and health clinics, employing the metaphor of "residue" to convey the historical, ideological, and social legacies that structure daily life, spatial configurations, and health outcomes in the neighborhood"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPublic health$zBrazil$zSa?o Paulo 606 $aEnvironmental health$zBrazil$zSa?o Paulo 606 $aSocial classes$xHealth aspects$zBrazil$zSa?o Paulo 606 $aImmigrants$xHealth and hygiene$zBrazil$zSa?o Paulo 607 $aBom Retiro (Sa?o Paulo, Brazil)$xSocial conditions 607 $aBom Retiro (Sa?o Paulo, Brazil)$xEmigration and immigration$xHealth aspects 615 0$aPublic health 615 0$aEnvironmental health 615 0$aSocial classes$xHealth aspects 615 0$aImmigrants$xHealth and hygiene 676 $a362.10981/61 700 $aLesser$b Jeff$0700863 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910987793103321 996 $aLiving and dying in Sa?o Paulo$94341302 997 $aUNINA