EUGENICS AND MENTAL HYGIENE IN BRAZIL AT THE TURN OF THE 19th CENTURY TO THE 20th CENTURY
EUGENICS AND MENTAL HYGIENE IN BRAZIL AT THE TURN OF THE 19th CENTURY TO THE 20th CENTURY
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583262301085
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Palavras-chave: Eugenics, genetics, hygiene, psychiatry.
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Keywords: Eugenics, genetics, hygiene, psychiatry.
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Abstract: Galton's thinking about Eugenia ("good generation"), coined late in the nineteenth century, soon became a school, meeting supporters around the world and marking new research within the field of biology, genetics primarily, and as will be seen further from psychiatry. In this text, the main objective is to understand how this discourse, transformed into practice by scientists of various areas, was appropriated by psychiatric science orienting the practices of the alienists in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, especially in Brazil.
- William Vaz de Oliveira
