The 'sick dancers': The construction of medical knowledge about the 'epidemic of dance' in Itapagipe, Salvador, Bahia (1882-1901)
| Autor: | Filipe Pinto Monteiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Medical knowledge Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Dance 05 social sciences Gender studies History 19th Century 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Motor incoordination 050905 science studies Body of knowledge Motor Skills Disorders 060105 history of science technology & medicine History and Philosophy of Science Chorea Phenomenon Humans 0601 history and archaeology 0509 other social sciences Dancing Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Filipe Monteiro |
| ISSN: | 1879-2499 |
| Popis: | The goal of this paper is to analyze a little-known set of documents referring to a "Dancing Epidemic" that took place in Itapagipe, a suburb of Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia, Brazil, in 1882. Through the studies of a group of physicians, especially Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (1862-1906), a psychiatrist and anthropologist from the Bahia School of Medicine, the medical knowledge built on this unique phenomenon in Brazilian history is examined. The case in particular involved a crowd that spread through the streets of Itapagipe, attracting the interest of the medical classes, who were intrigued by the symptoms of motor incoordination the patients manifested. Inspired by foreign literature, but developing their own theories, Rodrigues and colleagues created a unique body of knowledge about the infirmity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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