Thesis ID: CBB001561383

Enlightened Reason in the Tropics: Madness, Society and the State in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1808--1930 (2008)

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Meyer, Manuella (Author)


Yale University
Schwartz, Stuart B.


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Advisor: Schwartz, Stuart B.
Physical Details: 205 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation examines the socio-political and medical landscape in which mental illness became a public health construct and its subsequent management from 1808 to 1930 in Rio de Janeiro. In following the thread of this historical narrative, this analysis brings onto the scene a cast of unconventional characters: doctors, the mentally ill, police officers, public health bureaucrats and state officials in an unstable context: the erratic terrain of modern state formation. In examining the concepts of mental illness articulated by incipient psychiatrists during a time of rapid social transformation known in Brazilian history as the Imperial and Old Republic eras, I argue that the gradual adoption of punitive views of insanity helped legitimize social and gender inequalities resulting from swift industrialization. The project dialogues with historians and social scientists across geographical boundaries about public health, the history of welfare, gender, race discourse, state building, modernity and the socioeconomic organization of post-emancipation societies.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 69/06 (2008). Pub. no. AAT 3317176.


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Authors & Contributors
Thabane, Motlatsi
Brigo, Francesco
Roth, Cassia
Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
James A. Ostenson
Concepts
Medicine and society
Public health
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Brazil
England
United States
Great Britain
Lesotho
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