The beginnings of Psychiatry in Brazil
The Pedro II Mental Asylum, the private health care homes and its epistemological assumptions (1850-1880)
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https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v6i1.245Keywords:
Pedro II Mental Asylum, Private health care homes, History of psychiatry, History of medical knowledgeAbstract
This article develops an analysis of the epistemological assumptions on the construction and operation of nursing homes on the imperial Court, in the early years of psychiatry in Brazil. Thus, we present the results of a critical historiographic review developed in the context of the doctoral thesis, whose objective was to hue the interpretations produced on this subject – on the basis of the analysis of previously unpublished sources and the reinterpretation of sources already used by historiography –, contributing to a broader knowledge about the medical-scientific conceptions that guided the work of clinicians devoted to the treatment of neurosis in Brazil.
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