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The madman of Itaguaí, history, madness, and psychiatric knowledge: historiographic dialogues about 'The Alienist,' by Machado de Assis
- Source :
- História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 1095-1112, Published: 26 JAN 2016, História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, Vol 23, Iss 4, Pp 1095-1112, História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, Iss 0 (2016), História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos v.23 n.4 2016, História. Ciências. Saúde-Manguinhos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), instacron:FIOCRUZ
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- FapUNIFESP (SciELO), 2016.
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Abstract
- Resumo O artigo analisa a obra “O alienista”, de Machado de Assis, a partir de um diálogo com a historiografia (nem sempre escrita por historiadores) que, desde o final dos anos 1970 até períodos mais recentes, investiga tanto as práticas de intervenção psiquiátricas vigentes no Brasil da segunda metade do século XIX até o começo do XX quanto os aportes teóricos e as lógicas de poder e sociabilidades que davam sustentação a tais práticas. A perspectiva aqui assumida interpreta “O alienista” como um vigoroso “testemunho histórico”, num registro eminentemente crítico, dos momentos iniciais de implantação da medicina mental no Brasil e de seu correlato institucional, que é o hospício. Abstract From the early 1970s until more recently, historiography (which is not always written by historians) has investigated the psychiatric intervention practices that prevailed in Brazil from the latter half of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth, along with their theoretical foundations and the underlying logics of power and sociability. The article analyzes the novella “The Alienist,” by Machado de Assis, by engaging in dialogue with this field. The book is interpreted as a robust and eminently critical “historical witness” of the early emergence of mental health medicine in Brazil and its institutional correlate, the asylum.
- Subjects :
- history of madness
medicine.medical_specialty
History
saber psiquiátrico
literature and history
psychiatric knowledge
lcsh:R131-687
Power (social and political)
03 medical and health sciences
History and Philosophy of Science
lcsh:History of medicine. Medical expeditions
power and social control
medicine
Novella
0601 history and archaeology
Psychiatry
poder e controle social
030505 public health
Field (Bourdieu)
Historiography
06 humanities and the arts
General Medicine
Witness
Mental health
060105 history of science, technology & medicine
birth of the asylum
Famous persons
0305 other medical science
literatura e história
história da loucura
nascimento do hospício
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16784758 and 01045970
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1355a5d65c87e303566e6dc39bddb592
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702016005000003