Full green cloth, gilt titling. Light general wear; jacket has a four inch closed tear along the front flap fold with associated creasing and small chip along the upper edge, wear at the head of the spine, two short tears near the base of the spine. Text clean; xi, 225 pages, index, 8 b/w plates, bibliography. Scholarly study of 'institutes of science' in Brazil, the foremost of which is the Oswald Cruz Institute; concentrating more on how the institutes developed (or failed in the case of S�o Paulo's Bacterialogical Institute) socially & politically, than on their work, which included eradication campaigns against yellow fever & bubonic plague.

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Title: Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890-1920
Publisher: Science History Publications, New York
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN 10: 0882020323
ISBN 13: 9780882020327
Binding: Cloth
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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