Article ID: CBB001552733

Between the Examination of Children's Bodies and the Shaping of Racial Norms: Aspects of the Activities of the São Paulo State School Medical Inspection Service (2015)

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Rocha, Heloísa Helena Pimenta (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 22, no. 2
Issue: 2


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

This article analyzes aspects of the activities of the School Medical Inspection Service, an agency created in 1911 under the São Paulo State Sanitary Service and transferred in 1916 to the Secretary of Public Instruction. It focuses, more specifically, on the practice of the individual examination of students with the purpose of understanding the motivations behind these practices, the role they played in establishing standards of normality and abnormality, as well as their underlying racial tenor. To this end, its sources are articles published in the periodical Imprensa Médica, works written by the agency's head physician, Balthazar Vieira de Mello, and the Anuários do ensino, the official publication of the General Board for Public Instruction.

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Authors & Contributors
Ruis, Andrew R.
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
Beatty, Barbara
Bizzo, Nelio
Cravens, Hamilton
Faria, Lina
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Archives of Natural History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Economic History Review
History of Education Quarterly
Publishers
Carocci Editore
Rowman & Littlefield
Rutgers University Press
The MIT Press
Arizona State University
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concepts
Education
Children
Public health
Race
Medicine
Psychology
People
Cox, Oliver Cromwell
Foucault, Michel
Hall, Granville Stanley
Paula Souza, Geraldo Horácio de
Piaget, Jean
Gilbert Dempster Fisher
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Brazil
São Paulo (Brazil)
Paris (France)
Italy
Netherlands
Institutions
University of Chicago
Columbia University
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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