Psychiatric Dispositive and Production of Killable Subjects in Brazil between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

From Michel Foucault’s contributions (and his concepts of biopower and dispositive) and Giorgio Agamben (Homo Sacer) it is discussed how deaths were produced by the psychiatry in Brazil of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through bibliographic review in works dealing with psychiatry...

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Main Authors: Silvio de Azevedo Soares, Luís Antônio Francisco de Souza
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2019-09-01
Series:Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/16695

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