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Alcoolismo e medicina psiquiátrica no Brasil do início do século XX (2010)

Santos, Fernando Sergio Dumas dos (Author)
Verani, Ana Carolina (Author)

História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 17, suppl. 2
Issue: suppl. 2
Pages: 400-420

DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702010000600008

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue on the history of psychiatry
Language: Portuguese

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Alcoholism Mental disorders and diseases Disease and diseases Medicine and society Psychiatry Addictive behavior Public health 19th century 20th century, early Brazil

Based on a study of the construction of psychiatric knowledge and practices regarding alcoholism, the article explores the development of psychiatry in Brazil from the close of the nineteenth century through the first three decades of the twentieth. It examines both the role that psychiatry assigned to alcohol in manifestations of madness as well as the hypothesis that the concept of "alcoholic psychosis" was an attempt to encompass the symptoms and problems triggered within someone with chronic alcoholism. Defining the latter as a "social disease" tended to link it with the lower classes and their customs, practices, and living conditions. In an analysis of confinement to asylums, the article also captures echoes of the era's medical discussions and uses the reflections of writer Lima Barreto as a counterpoint to medical knowledge at that time.

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