Open AccessA cidade e a morte: a febre amarela e seu impacto sobre os costumes fúnebres no Rio de Janeiro (1849-50)
Author(s) -
Cláudia Rodrigues
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
história, ciências, saúde-manguinhos
Language(s) - Portuguese
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1678-4758
pISSN - 0104-5970
DOI - 10.1590/s0104-59701999000200003
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , population , socioeconomics , demography , government (linguistics) , ethnology , geography , humanities , history , art , medicine , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
During the summer of 1849-50, a yellow fever epidemic hit the city of Rio de Janeeiro. In analyzing the epidemic's impact on local funeral customs, the article asked to what extent the subsequent high mortality rate was a catalyst that changed people's attitudes towards death and the deceased. The central hypothesis is that the epidemic was the final argument physicians needed to convince the imperial government and the population to implement these doctors' project, one which would medicalize death and standardize funeral customs.