Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge

Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge
ISBN-10
0823242498
ISBN-13
9780823242498
Series
Chagas Disease
Category
Medical
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2012-08-14
Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Author
Francois Delaporte

Description

In Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge, Francois Delaporte describes how the interaction of public health policy with medical knowledge and epistemological transformations in the period 1900-1935 can account for the discovery of a continental endemic. It also deconstructs the myths that surround a number of major medical discoveries in both Brazil and Argentina.

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