Abstract

VASQUEZ, MARÍA FERNANDA. Intellectual Hygiene in Children or the Origins of the Psychiatrization of Childhood in Colombia, 1888-1920. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2018, vol.45, n.1, pp.105-129. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v45n1.67553.

On the basis of some Colombian medical texts on school hygiene at the end of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, the article examines "intellectual hygiene" as the condition of possibility for defining children's abnormality and the psychiatrization of childhood. Intellectual fatigue, or surmenage, and sexual instinct are two important elements to understand how, in the broader context of school hygiene, hygienists explain the relations between the mental and the physical. Studies on intellectual hygiene open up a new field of medical intervention: the school space, and create a new object of analysis: the school-age child.

Keywords : (Author) intellectual hygiene; psychiatrization; sexual instinct; surmenage; Thesaurus) Colombia; childhood.

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