O MÉDICO DONO DA MORTE? Suicídio & Saber Médico de Fábio Henrique Lopes

Have you ever felt that your sadness is treated merely as a biological symptom to be corrected by specialists? This obsession with labeling all deep pain as "illness" has roots in the 19th century, when medicine decided to control even the end of life. In this video, we explore the work "Suicide & Medical Knowledge: historical strategies of domination, control and intervention in Brazil in the 19th century," by Fábio Henrique Lopes. The author conducts an archeo-genealogical analysis, inspired by Michel Foucault, to show how suicide ceased to be seen as a sin or crime and became a pathology. We discuss how Brazilian doctors of the time began to dictate what was "normal" and to intervene in the social body, monitoring passions, habits, and even literature to ensure a medicalized and controlled society. Reference (APA Model): Lopes, F. H. (2010). Suicide & medical knowledge: historical strategies of domination, control and intervention in Brazil in the 19th century. Apicuri.