Memórias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Ano 1918 (Tomo X)

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A vivid contemporary record of Brazilian medicine at a crossroads. Vital evidence of medical history. Mem rias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Ano 1918 (Tomo X) reproduces an entire issue of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute's authoritative brazilian scientific journal, presented here as a careful medical research anthology. The collection gathers institutional reports, clinical observations and laboratory summaries that map infectious disease studies, tropical medicine history and public health research emerging from 1918 Brazil. As an academic reference collection of historical medical documents, the volume is indispensable to scholars and historians investigating early 20th century science; it also opens a readable, immediate window onto Portuguese medical literature for curious general readers and students of medical history. As a historical artefact the volume is invaluable: it captures the practices, priorities and professional language of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute at a decisive moment for Brazilian public health. Readers interested in infectious disease studies, tropical medicine history or the development of epidemiological method will find primary-source context that illuminates later advances; social historians and public-health practitioners alike will recognise policy and institutional dynamics in its pages. Casual readers will encounter vivid reportage and period detail; classic-literature collectors and institutional libraries will prize the issue for provenance and rarity. The issue also rewards cross-disciplinary study, serving simultaneously as a scientific record and as cultural testimony to the era. It furnishes bibliographic pathways for comparative work: researchers tracing scientific exchange between Brazil and Europe will find leads here and beyond, while linguistic scholars can follow the technical Portuguese of the time. University libraries, medical historians and independent researchers will welcome renewed access to authenticated historical medical documents from 1918. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354217834
• ISBN13: 9789354217838
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 2.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"