Mens sana in corpore sano
Incorporación de la higiene mental en la salud pública en la primera mitad del siglo XX en Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11154113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jairo Gutiérrez (0000-0002-0642-0722, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, corresponding author), Jairo Gutiérrez Avendaño |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 34 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historia Caribe (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0122-8803 • E-ISSN: 2322-6889 |
| Publisher | Universidad del Atlántico (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15648/hc.34.2019.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2904021347 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The present article aims to understand the appropriations and scientific transpositions between mental hygiene as a technical solution and eugenics as ideology, in the emergence of the concept of mental health in the middle of the XX century in Colombia. Methodology: inscribed in the current of social history of science, a documentary research was carried out, by means of heuristics of archives and hermeneutics. Conclusions: the predominance of hereditary propensity as a determinant of degeneration, over environmental factors, had discursive and practical transpositions in eugenics, extended to three fields: hygiene (physical, mental and moral), puericulture or maternal-child care and homiculture to "work the body and reap the man". Mental hygiene was a technical solution to prevent and remedy the decline of the race that was attributed to the civilization backlog in which the country was plunged, a historical background that characterized the emergence of the incorporation of psychic care in the public health agenda in Colombia and Latin America
Alchemy · Art · Art history · Civilization · Ethnology · Eugenics · Humanities · Hygiene · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychological Treatments and Disorders · Public Health and Social Inequalities
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |