The rise of biotypology in Brazil: measuring and classifying the morphology, physiology and character of Brazilians in the 1930s
The article analyses the rise of biotypology in Brazilian biomedical sciences during the 1930s, at the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, where a Laboratory of Biotypology was linked to the chair of Clinical Propaedeutics. Biotypology embraced experimental science and constitutional medicine....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222012000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |