Occupational diseases: africans, diseases and doctors on plantations, slave south-east (preliminary notes)

Abstract

In the 1990s, historical studies on slave diseases in Brazil emerged based on research on slavery. New studies have examined medical thinking about Africans, the identification of diseases, healing practices and medical assistance. The article analyzes the connections between diseases and working conditions in coffee areas. Based on the panorama of historiography, the impact of work regimes on the bodies of African workers is analyzed.

Keywords

• diseases
• work
• slavery
• africans
• plantation