Living and Dying in Sao Paulo Kenneth K. Tanaka This volume builds on the

This volume builds on the work of Kevin Lynch

It marks a welcome move away from a Eurocentric focus

and draws comparisons with the national second cities of Chiang Mai

Throughout the study

John Sexton

Living and Dying in Sao Paulo Kenneth K. Tanaka This volume builds on theThere is a saying in Brazil: "Mosquitoes are democratic: they bite the rich and the poor alike." Why then is bad health from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups? In Living and Dying in SAo Paulo, Jeffrey Lesser focuses on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to explore such questions by examining the competing visions of well being in Brazil among racialized immigrants and