Afrânio Peixoto: o embate entre a medicina e a literatura acerca do conhecimento médico no início do século XX

Alexandre A. Lima

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2014): Dossiê - Novos rumos da história colonial

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Afrânio Peixoto: the dissension between medicine and literature about the medical knowledge in the early 20th century

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Alexandre A. Lima

Published 2016-05-03 — Updated on 2021-04-16

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Keywords

Afrânio Peixoto,
Medicine,
Literature

How to Cite

Lima, Alexandre A. (2016) 2021. “Afrânio Peixoto: The Dissension Between Medicine and Literature about the Medical Knowledge in the Early 20th Century”. Locus: History Journal 20 (1). https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/locus/article/view/20765.

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Abstract

In this article, our aim is to rescue the questioning made by Alfrânio Peixoto (1876-1947) about the medical knowledge and literary concern about the mental illness and its variations, developed in his preface to “Miss Kate”, a fiction book written in 1909 by Araripe Junior (1848-1911).