Chagas Disease - History of a Continent''s Scourge

Informationen zum Autor François Delaporte is Professor Emeritus of the University of Picardia Jules Verne. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832 ; The History of Yellow Fever ; Anatomy of the Passions ; and Nature's Second Kingdom . He also edited A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem . Klappentext In Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge, François 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.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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• Authors: Francois Delaporte, François Delaporte, Francois Goldhammer Delaporte, Francois/ Goldhammer Delaporte, Franocois Delaporte
• Assisted by: Arthur Goldhammer (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2012
• EAN: 9780823242504
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-4250-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: American Philosophy; Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine