Que loucura é essa? : loucas e loucos italianos no Hospício São Pedro em Porto Alegre/RS (1900-1925)

Abstract

This thesis aims to approach the issue of Italian immigration under a different bias: admissions of Italians and descendants at Hospício São Pedro in Porto Alegre / RS between the years 1900 and 1925 for first admission. Through a quantitative history, but without losing sight of the qualitative, proposes to extract information from medical records of São Pedro in order to compare the admissions of Italians and other patients. Theoretical issues such as identity, gender and medical discourse direct empirical study of 1,158 medical documents, in order to answer if occurred differentiation in admissions between Italians and other inmates, and between men and women. Without being objective of the work, but part of it, the apprehension of different diagnoses enabled developing unusual form of an aspect of the history of psychiatry in Rio Grande do Sul, having the HSP as the stage.