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EP #75 - Brazil & COVID-19 - Rosanna Dent and Gilberto Hochman
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77 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2020
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Today, we have a discussion of BRAZIL WITH Rosanna Dent and Gilberto Hochman.
Rosanna Dent is an assistant professor in the federated history department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers--Newark. She has published work on the history of epidemiological research in Indigenous communities, and the history of genetics and anthropology in Brazil. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the political and social history of research interactions in Xavante (pronounced: Shah-vahn-teh) territory, as well as a digital humanities project to return scientific materials to the communities they document.
Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of works on health policies in a historical perspective such as the book "The Sanitation of Brazil - Nation. State and Public Health (1889-1930)" published in 2016 (The Illinois University Press). His current research is about science, politics and health in Cold War Brazil.
Rosanna Dent is an assistant professor in the federated history department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers--Newark. She has published work on the history of epidemiological research in Indigenous communities, and the history of genetics and anthropology in Brazil. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the political and social history of research interactions in Xavante (pronounced: Shah-vahn-teh) territory, as well as a digital humanities project to return scientific materials to the communities they document.
Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of works on health policies in a historical perspective such as the book "The Sanitation of Brazil - Nation. State and Public Health (1889-1930)" published in 2016 (The Illinois University Press). His current research is about science, politics and health in Cold War Brazil.
Released:
Jun 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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