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      As fronteiras da ‘anormalidade’: psiquiatria e controle social Translated title: The frontiers of ‘abnormality’: psychiatry and social control

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          O artigo trata de alguns dos principais aspectos que nortearam a inserção política e social da psiquiatria na sociedade brasileira de fins do século XIX e início do século XX, através da análise de certas temáticas - civilização, raça, trabalho, fanatismo, contestação política, sexualidade - privilegiadas pelos especialistas na construção da noção de ‘doença mental’, conferindo-lhe limites extremamente amplos e difusos. A partir da análise de textos produzidos por psiquiatras e legistas - tais como teses da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, relatórios do Serviço de Assistência a Alienados, obras e artigos de especialistas -, busca-se estabelecer e discutir a relação entre a definição psiquiátrica das fronteiras da ‘anormalidade’ e as tentativas de implementação de novas estratégias de controle social.

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          The article examines some of the main aspects governing psychiatry’s role in the Brazilian political and social context at the close of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. It analyzes certain themes -civilization, race, labor, fanaticisim, political dissent, sexuality - that were emphasized by specialists in their construction of a very broad notion of ‘mental illness’. Through the analysis of texts produced by psychiatrists and legal experts (including dissertations written at the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, reports from the Serviço de Assistência a Alienados, and works and articles by specialists), the relation between the psychiatric definition of the frontiers of ‘abnormality’ and efforts to implement new strategies of social control is discussed.

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                Journal
                hcsm
                História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
                Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos
                Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0104-5970
                1678-4758
                February 1999
                : 5
                : 3
                : 547-563
                Affiliations
                [01] Niterói RJ orgnameUniversidade Federal Fluminense orgdiv1Departamento de História Brasil
                Article
                S0104-59701999000100001 S0104-5970(99)00500301
                be78a847-e0f3-4a25-b9de-c98266b4a0cc

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : March 1998
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 38, Pages: 17
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                controle social,psiquiatria,psychiatry,doença mental,social contro,mental illness

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