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Abstract

Despite the modernist goals of positivist dictators in Argentina and Brazil, the public health authorities in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro were indifferent to the emergent bacteriologically informed paradigm of public health control that might have led them to cull rats and use new vaccines and serums.

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Title
Book Review
Author
Porter, Dorothy, PhD
Pages
1355-1357
Section
Book Review
Publication year
2007
Publication date
Sep 27, 2007
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Website
http://www.nejm.org
ISSN
00284793
e-ISSN
15334406
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMbkrev58332
ProQuest document ID
223937010
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.