Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how socio-political negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalization Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666. . 2017. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1580465781
ISBN 13: 9781580465786
Binding: Hardcover
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Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalization

Reasoning against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944 examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry, looking at how its practitioners fashioned themselves as the key architects in the project ofnational regeneration. The book's narrative involves a cast of varied characters in an unstable context: psychiatrists, Catholic representatives, spiritist leaders, state officials, and the mentally ill, all caught in the shiftinglandscape of modern state formation.

Manuella Meyer investigates the key junctures at which psychiatrists sought to establish their authority and the ways in which their adversaries challenged this authority. These moments serve as productive points from which to explore the moral and political economies of mental health, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations shape psychiatric professionalization. Meyer argues that the gradual adoptionof punitive configurations of insanity helped sanction socioeconomic and political inequalities during a time of rapid socioeconomic, political, and cultural transformation.

Manuella Meyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond.

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Manuella Meyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond.

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