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.
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Johnson, Karen A.
Fierro, Catriel
Pitre, Abul
Bond, Gregory T.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Pharmacy in History
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Black Studies
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Arizona State University
The MIT Press
Rutgers University Press
Rowman & Littlefield
Rodopi
Concepts
Children
Education
Public health
Race
Psychology
Hospitals and clinics
People
Lewis, Mozella Esther
Gilbert Dempster Fisher
Piaget, Jean
Paula Souza, Geraldo Horácio de
Hall, Granville Stanley
Foucault, Michel
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
São Paulo (Brazil)
Brazil
Seattle (Washington, U.S.)
Bahia (Brazil)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Institutions
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Columbia University
University of Chicago
American Red Cross
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