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| Author(s): |
Débora Michels Mattos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-08-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado;
Paulino de Jesus Francisco Cardoso;
Flavio dos Santos Gomes;
Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian;
Tânia Salgado Pimenta
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| Advisor: | Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this thesis is to correlate slavery and health in the Ilha de Santa Catarina, between 1850 and 1888. The intent is to demonstrate the significant presence of Africans and their descendants as slaves, freed or free people of color amongst the whole population of this geographic locality. This research uncovers the modalities of their work, as well as their strategies to survive in a context of exploration of slave labor and increasing movements for emancipation and abolition. From the perspective of health, it intends to show how doctors, surgeons and pharmacists, who graduated in universities created after Brazilian independence, stood against the popular healing practices of Africans and their descendants. Moreover, it points to the frequency wherewith health professionals resorted to the knowledge and practices of black healers, within a society that likewise accepted those kinds of popular health treatments. To debate the discourses about health and slavery in Brazil and in the Ilha de Santa Catarina elucidates the contradictions that mark the discourses of both the intellectuality and the press in the nineteenth century. Considering the precarious living conditions of enslaved people besides the free and emancipated Africans and their descendants, also submitted to frequent violence this research questions the level of interaction between social medicine and slavery. In this sense, this thesis considers how health and disease issues were thought in relation to them, and to which level they embraced the official medicine of the period. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/08626-0 - Health and slavery in the island of Santa Catarina: second half of the nineteenth century (1851-1888) |
| Grantee: | Débora Michels Mattos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |