Jeffery Lesser ’82 AM, ’84 PhD writes: “I am pleased to report that my newest book, Living and Dying in São Paulo, was published by Duke University Press in April 2025 in English, and by Editora UNESP in June 2025 in Portuguese. An Andrew Mellon Foundation award has allowed open access versions in both languages. The book asks why bad health—from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue—is dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups. To answer the questions, I focus on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of well-being in Brazil among racialized immigrants, policymakers, and health officials.”
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