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 Author: Soares, Silvio de Azevedo (author)
Other Authors: Souza, Luís Antônio Francisco de (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/16695
Country:Brazil
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