Translation of: A era do Saneamento: as bases da polaitica de saaude paublica no Brasil / Gilberto Hochman. Saao Paulo: Editora Hucitec, 1998.
Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. His other books include Cuidar, Controlar, Curar and Pol¿icas Públicas no Brasil, and Médicos Intérpretes do Brasil . Diane Grosklaus-Whitty 's translations include The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil .