title: [Caring for the health of your neighbor: the work of anthropologist Charles Wagley with the Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública].
abstract: The article focuses on the work of Charles Wagley as a top staff member with Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública (Special Public Health Service), a US-Brazil cooperation program established during World War II. Taking into consideration Wagley's experience with migration policy under Brazil's Rubber Program, as well as the context of development promotion and the issues then on the anthropological agenda, the article explores Wagley's community study of the Amazon town he visited while on SESP missions, published in the book Uma comunidade amazônica (Amazon Town). Encountering a reality that he believed emblematic of underdevelopment, Wagley was led to reflect on social change and the role of science.
authors.forename: Regina Érika Domingos
authors.initials: RÉ
authors.lastname: de Figueiredo
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000266:history*; D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007391:International Cooperation; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States