\nbook reviews editor, Ana Carolina Vimeiros, was recently published in Social History of Medicine,<\/a> a prestigious publication of Oxford Journals.\u00a0
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe article traces the rise and diffusion of biotypology\u2014and its practices of the bodily classification of people\u2014in the Brazilian scientific agenda.<\/p>\n
It addresses the history of biotypology and the socio-political context of Brazil, especially during the Vargas Era from 1930 to 1945.<\/p>\n
Biotypological studies operated beyond the realm of medical practice, informing eugenic, racial and national identity debates in Brazil.<\/p>\n
In Brazil in the 1930s, biotypology was a foundational doctrine for national medicine. Proposing a holistic view of the organism, biotypology was embraced as a medical science that could overcome approaches focused on illness rather than on the sick person. Among its various meanings, biotypology was described as \u2018the science of the individual\u2019.<\/p>\n
Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes has a PhD in History and is a professor of the history of science in the Department of History at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.<\/p>\n
See in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n
The Biomedicalization of Brazilian Bodies: Anthropological Perspectives (vol.23 no.1 Rio de Janeiro Jan.\/Mar.<\/a>\u00a02016)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gomes, Ana Carolina Vimieiro, Silva, Andr\u00e9 Luiz dos Santos and Vaz, Alexandre Fernandez. O Gabinete Biom\u00e9trico da Escola de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o F\u00edsica do Ex\u00e9rcito: medir e classificar para produzir corpos ideais, 1930-1940<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2013, vol.20, no.4, p.1551-1569. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Gomes, Ana Carolina Vimieiro and Dalben, Andr\u00e9. O controle m\u00e9dico-esportivo no Departamento de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o F\u00edsica do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo: aproxima\u00e7\u00f5es entre esporte e medicina nas d\u00e9cadas de 1930 e 1940<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.321-336. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Freire, Gilberto Martins and Rodrigues, Graciele Massoli. Sobre \u201cCuerpo, discapacidad y estigma en el origen del campo del deporte adaptado de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1950-1961: \u00bfuna mera interiorizaci\u00f3n de una identidad devaluada?<\/a>\u201d. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2015, vol.22, p.1789-1791. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Ferrante, Carolina.\u00a0Cuerpo, discapacidad y estigma en el origen del campo del deporte adaptado de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1950-1961: \u00bfuna mera interiorizaci\u00f3n de una identidad devaluada?<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Jun 2014, vol.21, no.2, p.421-437. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n