1. Indígenas tristes y degenerados: la mirada psiquiátrica de Hermilio Valdizán sobre la diferencia racial en Perú, 1910-1925

Resumen Hermilio Valdizán publicó numerosos trabajos sobre lo que se denominó folklor psiquiátrico, entendido como las formas de comprender y tratar las enfermedades mentales por parte de los indígenas, tanto del pasado colonial y prehispánico como del presente del autor. En este artículo analizamos los textos de Valdizán sobre las características p

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2022

2. Degeneración, criminalidad y heredo-alcoholismo en Colombia, primera mitad del siglo XX

Abstract This article analyzes how medical discourse objectified alcoholism as a “morbid state”, closely linked to criminality and mental illness, based on some medical theses, scientific articles and debates produced during the first three decades of the 20th century in Colombia. The appropriation of the theory of degeneration allowed physicians, hygien

Saude soc.. Publicado em: 2018-06

3. Ortopedia da Alma. Degeneracionismo e Higiene Mental na Casa de Correção de Menores e Escola de Trabalho San Jose, Colômbia, 1914-1947

Objetivo Compreender as práticas e a formação experimental da psicopedagogia da infância anormal na Colômbia, realizadas na Casa de Correção de Menores e Escola de Trabalho San José, entre 1914 e 1947. Métodos e materiais: estudo qualitativo, de abordagem histórico-hermenêutica, mediante pesquisa documental, heurística de arquivos de patrimôni

Rev. latinoam. psicopatol. fundam.. Publicado em: 2016-03

4. Enfermedad deformante, degeneración y clima en Colombia, 1880-1920

This text aims to unite two neglected areas of study in Colombian medical historiography: disfiguring disease and the concept of climate. It seeks to show how physicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Colombia associate a clinical semiology of disfiguring disease with the influence of certain climatic and hereditary conditions. Chara

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2011-06

5. Emil Kraepelin y el problema de la degeneración

When Kraepelin laid the foundations of what we now understand as psychiatry, he was faithful to the nineteenth-century hygienist's penchant for approaching social problems in terms of medical categories. With Kraepelin's writings on the issue of degeneration as a backdrop, the article analyzes how the methodology he introduced for researching psychiatric ill

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2010-12

6. Clima, cerebro y degeneración en Cabanis

This analysis of the arguments defended by Cabanis in Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme takes as its point of departure his eighth and ninth Memoirs, which focus on analyzing the influences of regime and climate. These writings afford a new reading of the arguments Cabanis used to explain the relation between the physical traits and moral habits of

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2009-12

7. La miseria de la degeneración: el materialismo de Buffon y las 'limitaciones' de su transformismo

In "Of the degeneration of animals" (1766), Buffon espoused a kind of limited transformism. Yet twelve years later, in Epochs of Nature, he supplemented this with a materialist theory on the origin of life that left no room for this alternative: the conditions under which living beings develop could explain how the different species within each animal genus

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2009-09

8. Para una genealogía de la anormalidad: la teoría de la degeneración de Morel

Here we analyze Morel's theory of degeneration as it was presented in his Treatise of the degeneration of human species, published in 1857. This text originated as an attempt to answer difficulties that had to be faced by the nascent psychiatry. Following it, there began to be constructed an epistemological ground that made possible the creation and the late

Scientiae Studia. Publicado em: 2009