Manuella Meyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3736295 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Manuella Meyer |
| PRENOMES | Manuella |
| SOBRENOME | Meyer |
| ASSINATURA | MEYER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Richmond |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Crimes of Passion and Psychiatry in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This article examines how early twentieth-century crime of passion trials constructed medical insanity and criminal responsibility by litigating varied interpretations of masculine decision making. Specifically, it looks at how defense lawyers used and applied psychiatric knowledge to their clients’ benefit and how psychiatrists, in turn, (re)asserted control over that knowledge by condemning its misuse. The way that these medico-legal narratives…
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice
Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890-1950)
Book Review| February 01 2021 Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890–1950) Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890–1950). Edited by Barone, Ana and Rios, Flavia. São Paulo: Intermeios/Labraça/Fapesp, 2019. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. 357 pp. Paper, R$58.00. Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 176–178. https://d…
Punishment in Paradise
Peter M. Beattie deftly examines the sociopolitical history of a national agricultural penal institution to gain insight into the Brazilian state and civil societies. Beattie offers an exhaustive analysis of Fernando de Noronha, located off the coast of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, the largest forced-labor penal colony in nineteenth-century Brazil. Beattie grafts the microhistory of this colony onto larger national processes such as inde…
Of Grand Intentions” and “Opaque Structures”
This article chronicles contestations between religious actors, represented by the Brazilian Santa Casa de Misericórdia Catholic lay brotherhood and the French nun order, the Daughters of Charity, on one hand, and emergent psychiatrists, on the other, over the governance of the Hospício Pedro II, Brazil’s first public asylum. It investigates how psychiatrists, as apostles of professional rationality, developed their ideas about reason and bureauc…
Laws of Chance
Diseased Relations
Book Review| July 01 2012 Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924. By McCrea, Heather. (Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 2011. $27.95 paper.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 659–661. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Hotel Trópico
Book Review| October 01 2011 Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of Africa Decolonization, 1950–1980 Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of Africa Decolonization, 1950–1980. By Dávila, Jerry. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 312 pp., introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $84.95 cloth.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 757–7…
Contested Histories in Public Space
Book Review| January 01 2011 Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States By Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. viii + 365 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) By David Luis-Brown. (Durham, NC: Duke Univers…
Sanity in the South Atlantic
This article chronicles the asylum movement in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It narrates the ways in which medical reformers launched an asylum-building campaign. While their call to construct an asylum was based on local political and medical circumstances, its intellectual impetus came from the Atlantic marketplace of ideas. Political and intellectual currents in France inspired doctors intent on transforming the management of madness. Spe…
Facing Racial Revolution
Book Review| October 01 2010 Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection By Jeremy D. Popkin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xv + 400 pp., map, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $54.00 cloth.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 775–776. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-060 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Curing the Colonizers
In a fascinating study, Eric T. Jennings deftly examines the ways in which spas throughout the French colonial empire coupled water and altitude cures as a means to ensure and maintain the physical, moral and socio-cultural well-being of colonials between 1860 and 1962. He explores the cultural history of French colonisers by investigating their endeavours to create highland spas in the colonies. Underlying the diverse opinions expressed in colon…
Nas Fronteiras do Além
Claudia Rodrigues’s Nas Fronteiras do Além examines the secularization of death in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Rio de Janeiro. While the study is predominantly confined to Rio de Janeiro, she also briefly mentions and explores the secularization of death in other Brazilian cities. Drawing upon wills, ecclesiastical materials, and notarial records, along with the public discourses of civil and religious authorities, this ambiti…
Curing the Colonizers
In a fascinating study, Eric T. Jennings deftly examines the ways in which spas throughout the French colonial empire coupled water and altitude cures as a means to ensure and maintain the physical, moral and socio-cultural well-being of colonials between 1860 and 1962. He explores the cultural history of French colonisers by investigating their endeavours to create highland spas in the colonies. Underlying the diverse opinions expressed in colon…
Sanity in the South Atlantic
This article chronicles the asylum movement in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It narrates the ways in which medical reformers launched an asylum-building campaign. While their call to construct an asylum was based on local political and medical circumstances, its intellectual impetus came from the Atlantic marketplace of ideas. Political and intellectual currents in France inspired doctors intent on transforming the management of madness. Spe…
Curing the Colonizers
In a fascinating study, Eric T. Jennings deftly examines the ways in which spas throughout the French colonial empire coupled water and altitude cures as a means to ensure and maintain the physical, moral and socio-cultural well-being of colonials between 1860 and 1962. He explores the cultural history of French colonisers by investigating their endeavours to create highland spas in the colonies. Underlying the diverse opinions expressed in colon…
Nas Fronteiras do Além
Claudia Rodrigues’s Nas Fronteiras do Além examines the secularization of death in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Rio de Janeiro. While the study is predominantly confined to Rio de Janeiro, she also briefly mentions and explores the secularization of death in other Brazilian cities. Drawing upon wills, ecclesiastical materials, and notarial records, along with the public discourses of civil and religious authorities, this ambiti…
Sanity in the South Atlantic
This article chronicles the asylum movement in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It narrates the ways in which medical reformers launched an asylum-building campaign. While their call to construct an asylum was based on local political and medical circumstances, its intellectual impetus came from the Atlantic marketplace of ideas. Political and intellectual currents in France inspired doctors intent on transforming the management of madness. Spe…
Facing Racial Revolution
Book Review| October 01 2010 Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection By Jeremy D. Popkin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xv + 400 pp., map, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $54.00 cloth.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 775–776. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-060 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Hotel Trópico
Book Review| October 01 2011 Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of Africa Decolonization, 1950–1980 Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of Africa Decolonization, 1950–1980. By Dávila, Jerry. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 312 pp., introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $84.95 cloth.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 757–7…
Contested Histories in Public Space
Book Review| January 01 2011 Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States By Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. viii + 365 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) By David Luis-Brown. (Durham, NC: Duke Univers…
Laws of Chance
Diseased Relations
Book Review| July 01 2012 Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924. By McCrea, Heather. (Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 2011. $27.95 paper.) Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 659–661. https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Of Grand Intentions” and “Opaque Structures”
This article chronicles contestations between religious actors, represented by the Brazilian Santa Casa de Misericórdia Catholic lay brotherhood and the French nun order, the Daughters of Charity, on one hand, and emergent psychiatrists, on the other, over the governance of the Hospício Pedro II, Brazil’s first public asylum. It investigates how psychiatrists, as apostles of professional rationality, developed their ideas about reason and bureauc…
Punishment in Paradise
Peter M. Beattie deftly examines the sociopolitical history of a national agricultural penal institution to gain insight into the Brazilian state and civil societies. Beattie offers an exhaustive analysis of Fernando de Noronha, located off the coast of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, the largest forced-labor penal colony in nineteenth-century Brazil. Beattie grafts the microhistory of this colony onto larger national processes such as inde…
Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890-1950)
Book Review| February 01 2021 Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890–1950) Negros nas cidades brasileiras (1890–1950). Edited by Barone, Ana and Rios, Flavia. São Paulo: Intermeios/Labraça/Fapesp, 2019. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. 357 pp. Paper, R$58.00. Manuella Meyer Manuella Meyer University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 176–178. https://d…
Crimes of Passion and Psychiatry in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This article examines how early twentieth-century crime of passion trials constructed medical insanity and criminal responsibility by litigating varied interpretations of masculine decision making. Specifically, it looks at how defense lawyers used and applied psychiatric knowledge to their clients’ benefit and how psychiatrists, in turn, (re)asserted control over that knowledge by condemning its misuse. The way that these medico-legal narratives…
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice
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