Mar 2023
MUÑOZ, Pedro. Clínica, laboratório e eugenia: uma história transnacional das relações Brasil-Alemanha. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz; Editora PUC-Rio, 2018. 395.
This book, co-edited by PUC-Rio and Editora Fiocruz, is a partially modified version of Pedro Munhoz’s doctoral thesis, part of which he conducted at Freie Universität Berlin with a scholarship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) and Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst (Daad).
Munhoz is a young historian and psychologist influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault. This original work contributes to understanding the relations between Brazil and Germany from a transnational historical perspective, which focuses on the interweaving and circulation of knowledge.
Enriched by material gathered from primary sources in Brazil and Germany, the study investigated relations in the field of psychiatry in the period from 1900 to 1942, interrupted by the Second World War.
During this period, the concepts of German psychiatry, neurology, and genetic psychiatry circulated in Brazil – and the study shows how and by whom they were appropriated.
See the full review of the book by Leonardo Bahiense, Ph.D. in History of Science and Health, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz .
This review is part of the special issue Transcultural histories of psychotherapies: new narratives (HCS-Manguinhos 29 suppl 1, 2022), coordinated by professors Sonu Shamdasani (Health Humanities Centre/University College London) and Cristiana Facchinetti (postgraduate Program in History of Sciences and Health/Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz).
