Na esteira da loucura: colônia de alienados Eduardo Ribeiro - práticas e representações na ala feminina Manaós/AM(1894-1930)

Abstract

The main objective of this text is analise the practice and represents that happened in Manaus in the change of century XIX to XX. This practice, are relative the projects of urbanization, restructuring, sanitation and medicalization of public space, throught new concepts of civility. Were mormalize through tthe creation of institution and in the exclusion of social patients is specific in this problem of crazy that walk around the streets. In this context, we have like fundaments in docments fonts for the speaks of each one in others time, throught local news, reports and messages of mayor and local politics, that signalize for a construction an specific end appropriate local to hospital stays of this crazy person, and with this open spaces for the treatment of alienate in Manaus. In this suggest, we can also think about the paper of the doctor in this area to social intervention, of female body and the ambiguous concepts that his around the craziness.