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O IMPÉRIO DOS MIASMAS: A ACADEMIA IMPERIAL DE MEDICINA
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Analisa a dualidade valorativa da concepção de natureza e clima brasileiros veiculada pela Academia Imperial de Medicina, no período de 1830 a 1850. Enfoca aspectos do pensamento ocidental dos séculos XVIII e XIX no que se refere as definições da natureza tropical e ao caráter positivo ou negativo a ela atribuido. Aborda temas presentes no universo ideológico articulado pela classe senhorial no processo de construção do Estado Imperial. Resgata algumas filiações científicas dos médicos da Academia Imperial de Medicina. Analisa como o caráter romantizado da natureza brasileira convive, no interior do discurso médico, com as concepções de insalubridade do clima tropical.
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Analyzes the dual value of the conception of Brazilian nature and climate conveyed by the Imperial Academy of Medicine, in the period from 1830 to 1850. It focuses on aspects of Western thought from the 18th and 19th centuries with regard to the definitions of tropical nature and its positive or negative character assigned to her. It addresses themes present in the ideological universe articulated by the lordly class in the process of building the Imperial State. It recalls some scientific affiliations of the doctors at the Imperial Academy of Medicine. It analyzes how the romanticized character of Brazilian nature coexists, within medical discourse, with conceptions of the unhealthiness of the tropical climate.
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