Abstract
Moacyr Scliar, a public-health physician, is an assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine of the Faculdade Federal de Ciencias Medicas, in Porto Alegre. Brazil. He has worked in the Health State Department in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was public-health director, and he has worked for the Ministry of Health and for the Pan-American Health Organisation. Scliar is the author of 48 fiction and non-fiction books, including Transformed Passions: The Image of the Doctor in Literature (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996) and His Majesty of the Xingu (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1997), which is about a physician who dedicates his life to assist Indians in Brazil (winner of a Brazilian Academy of Literature prize).
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