{"id":7558,"date":"2025-06-05T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2025-06-05T04:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:20:15","slug":"lesser-publishes-living-and-dying-in-sao-paulo-with-duke-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/06\/05\/lesser-publishes-living-and-dying-in-sao-paulo-with-duke-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Publishes &#8216;Living and Dying in S\u00e3o Paulo&#8217; with Duke UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/lesser-living-dying.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br \/>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/lesser-jeffrey.html\">Jeffrey Lesser<\/a>, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, has published a new monograph, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/living-and-dying-in-sao-paulo\">Living and Dying in S\u00e3o Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil<\/a><\/em>, with Duke University Press. The work examines competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants, policymakers, and health officials over 150 years and primarily in S\u00e3o Paulo&#8217;s Bom Retiro neighborhood, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship.\u00a0In addition to historical and literary documentation, Lesser&#8217;s book was informed by a multi-year observation of a basic health team at the Oct\u00e1vio Augusto Rodovalho Public Health Clinic of the Brazilian National Health Service. Read praise for <em>Living and Dying<\/em> below and find the full <a href=\"https:\/\/library.oapen.org\/handle\/20.500.12657\/100093\">open access<\/a> book from Duke UP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>\u201c<\/em>Living and Dying in S\u00e3o Paulo<em>\u00a0is methodologically innovative, conceptually powerful, and engagingly written. Jeffrey Lesser\u2019s book has rare precision and creativity. Not only does he give an insightful reading of place and people, he also makes a bold case for historians to adopt new approaches and for those in the social and biomedical sciences to pose questions historically. This is the kind of writing I am sure most historians\u2014myself included\u2014wish they could do.\u201d &#8211; <\/em>Jerry D\u00e1vila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History, the University of Illinois. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, has published a new monograph, Living and Dying in S\u00e3o Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil, with Duke University Press. The work examines competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants, policymakers, and health officials over 150 years and primarily in S\u00e3o [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-faculty","category-publications","category-research","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}