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This site represents an archive of the site Cultures of Health - A Historical Anthology, which was active from 2007 - 2010, based out of the Department of History at the University of Windsor. The files here have been reconstituted from a rescued hard drive after the original server failed. Consequently, there are some minor anomalies in the character sets, particularly in punctuation marks. As well, authorship of some posts is missing, and some images and photographs are missing. Nonetheless, we preserve this as a record of the project.
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The Fight against Yaws in Brazil: Scope and Limitations of an Eradication Program
Amid the sanitary optimism and the biomedical discoveries of the post-World War II era, public health policies in Brazil in the 1950s were strongly marked by actions to control and eradicate diseases of the countryside. In 1956, President Juscelino Kubitschek (JK), to defend the importance of combating so-called rural endemic diseases — which he called [...]
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