A assistência a alienados na capital federal da primeira república: discursos e práticas entre rupturas e continuidades

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Oliveira, William Vaz De
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The Alienated Assistance in the city of Rio de Janeiro, during the first decades of its operation, was under the direct care of the religious charity. At Hospice of Pedro II, first establishment catering exclusively to the treatment of insane in Brazil, the Sisters of Charity were are de forefront of services at least until the year of 1890, when a decree Republican view of a number of medical claims linked to the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, promotes detach the Hospice of Santa Casa de Misericordia putting assistance in the care of the State. Only then is that doctors might actually crave a place of authority in the process of consolidation psychiatric knowledge and practice in Brazil. In this sense, this work has a main objective to understand not only the process of constitution of psychiatric as a field of specific knowledge about madness, turned into mental illness, but especially surrounding the discourses, practices and political disputes that marked the Assistance alienated in the city of Rio de Janeiro during the First Republic. It aims at making an analysis of the tour as a whole, trying to understand the dispute waged between doctors and nuns, as well as stories and features of each of its establishments and sections characterize the therapeutic activities, the methods used in the treatment of patients, practices everyday experiences, living conditions of the inmates, dissonance and consonance between doctors, officers and employees.
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Language	English
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