Lewis W. Hackett and the early years of the International Health Board's Yellow Fever Program in Brazil, 1917-1924

ABSTRACT

It explores aspects of the International Health Board's early years in Brazil, hoping to show how disease and the American Sanitary impulse were defined by the International Health Board within the framework of its vision, yet were molded by the Brazilian government, society and natural environment. Because Lewis Hackett was the board's representative in Brazil during almost all of the period, 1917-1924, significant elements of this story will be told through his words and seen through his eyes.(AU)