German-Brazilian scientific relations in the context of São Paulo medicine (1919-1950)

• Grant number: 11/51984-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: December 11, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Science
• Principal Investigator: Maria Amelia Mascarenhas Dantes
• Grantee: Andre Felipe Candido da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes the study of medical and scientific relations between Brazil and Germany in the period extending from 1919 to 1950, and its impact on the trajectory and scientific agendas of personalities and institutions of São Paulo. The goal is to demonstrate the interests and objectives of different actors that participated in this exchange, the disciplines and scientific questions that stand out in this context and how the articulation of scientists with the diplomatic circles and economic groups, particularly with the pharmaceutical and medical supplies, wad did. The research will be based on wide range of sources collected in Germany and sources and bibliography that it will be collected in archives and libraries from São Paulo, as well as the historiography of research institutions from São Paulo. It will be detailed the trajectory of some researchers who have ] maintained a dose relationship with Germany, as Adolfo Lindenberg, professor of Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo; Martin Ficker, a microbiologist that over 25 years directed in São Paulo a microbiology institution in São Paulo linked to Kaiser Wilhelm Society and Walter Büngeler, a pathologist that between 1936 and 1942 was professor of pathological anatomy at the Paulista School of Medicine and promoted the relationship between Brazil and the Nazi Germany. The interest is also to analyze how the movement between the two countries, people, ideas, projects, institutional models, publications and objects between Brazil and Germany impacted on the local science and contributed to the legitimization of careers and the establishment of a German cultural diplomacy. Moreover, it will be evaluate as the German colony in São Paulo influenced this exchange and the accommodations, tensions and dilemmas surrounding the negotiations for it to take effect. (AU)