Julyan G Peard: 2 books
Race, Place, and Medicine
The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped...
An American Teacher in Argentina
Mary Gorman’s Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters...