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médicos-higienistas

English translation: public health doctor


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Portuguese term or phrase:médicos-higienistas
English translation:public health doctor
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15:59 Jul 1, 2010
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Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Sports / Fitness / Recreation / educação física
Portuguese term or phrase: médicos-higienistas
Desta forma, médicos-higienistas recomendavam a ginástica que, adequada a sexo feminino, fortaleceria o corpo daquelas que gerariam filhos fortes para servirem à nossa nação.
Lilian Magalhães
Local time: 21:51
public health doctor
Explanation:
These included school doctors. Sometimes known as "physicians and public health specialists". Very familiar in many countries in the earlier part of the twentieth century.
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Gilla Evans
Local time: 01:51
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4physicians specializing in hygiene (OU speciaLIZED)
Mary Palmer
4eugenist doctors
Marlene Curtis
4public health doctor
Gilla Evans
3sanitary physicians
Verginia Ophof


  

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public health doctor


Explanation:
These included school doctors. Sometimes known as "physicians and public health specialists". Very familiar in many countries in the earlier part of the twentieth century.

Gilla Evans
Local time: 01:51
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eugenist doctors


Explanation:
Imperialism and Motherhood - TheCooperUnion » The Cooper Union
[42] Mary Scharlieb, an influential eugenist doctor, would not go so far (perhaps because her professional status made her something of a 'new woman' ...
www.cooper.edu/humanities/core/hss3/a_davin.html

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'For the Sake of the Race': Eugenic Discourses of Feeblemindedness ...
by S Klausen - 1997 - Cited by 7 - Related articles
underclass which was the source of such great anxiety for eugenist doctors who were mainly middle-class men of British-origin. ...
www.jstor.org/stable/2637136

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 20:51
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PRO pts in category: 28
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sanitary physicians


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    Reference: http://www.epidemiology.ch/history/PDF%20bg/Lilienfeld%20DE%...
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 18:51
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physicians specializing in hygiene (OU speciaLIZED)


Explanation:
Eu simplesmente diria assim...


http://www.google.com.br/#hl=pt-BR&q=physician specialized i...

Boa sorte! :)

Mary Palmer
United States
Local time: 21:51
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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