Another exciting new book that has been indexed by Southwest Humanities will be published soon. Jeffrey Lesser’s Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2025), will be published on March 21, 2025. Lesser’s book examines how different approaches to well-being in Brazil manifest in the São Paulo neighborhood of Bom Retiro, focusing on issues of sanitation, public health, and citizenship. The views of policy-makers, public health officials, and immigrants are considered in order to analyze “the fraught relationship between Bom Retiro residents and the state and health care agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century.” In so doing, Living and Dying in São Paulo covers “how continuing historical material, legislative, and social legacies structure contemporary daily life and health outcomes in the neighborhood.” For more information about this important new title, please see the publisher’s website here.