Banca de DEFESA: LEONARDO BISPO SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LEONARDO BISPO SANTOS
DATE: 29/09/2021
TIME: 19:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:
KEY WORDS:

Brazilian Congress of Eugenics; Eugenics; Brazilian Intellectuals; periodicals of Rio de Janeiro

 

PAGES: 140
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Eugenics was a scientific and social movement that intended to apply knowledge about heredity to the social environment, seeking to racially "improve" some human types. Created in England in the second half of the 19th century, it spread to several countries in the first decades of the 20th century. In Brazil, eugenics became associated with the medical-sanitary workers and psychiatric movement and gained several supporters among the most celebrated scientists and authorities of the time, reaching the apex of its recognition with the holding of the First Brazilian Congress of Eugenics in Rio de Janeiro in July 1929. In the present master thesis we will deal with this Eugenics Congress, its participants and its discussions, which went beyond the event itself and the publications restricted to the inner circle of doctors, intellectuals, and sympathizers of eugenics, and found its way into the pages of periodicals in Rio de Janeiro state aimed at a broad public. As the main source of this work, we privileged articles from several newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals from the aforementioned Brazilian state. In this way, besides retrieving possibly unpublished material about the event and its works, we sought to analyze the discussions and the personal disputes and political projects within Brazilian eugenics at the turn of the 1920s to the 1930s.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1775134 - FABIO KOIFMAN
Interno - 1353338 - LUIS EDMUNDO DE SOUZA MORAES
Externo à Instituição - RICARDO AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS - FIOCRUZ