This research analyzes the Biological Therapies, as fevertherapy, convulsivetherapy, hypoglycemic comas and the psychosurgeries, deployed and used widely in the Juquery Hospital between the years 1923 and 1937. This period corresponds to the direction of Juquery by Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva, influential medical from São Paulo, which introduced these therapies in national psychiatry and built a large institutional trajectory, bound by the most conservative sectors of São Paulo's society. Thus, the analysis is developed aiming to highlight the links between political, scientific and morals concepts of Pacheco e Silva with the application of the therapies mentioned in individuals hospitalized in Juquery. This research discusses the relationship between the application of biological therapies and the consolidation of psychiatry as a respectable medical area, since he sought to express a more "scientific" psychiatry to the extent that their diagnosis and its treatment, supposedly, were determined from anatomopathological criteria. For this purpose, the source of this research is to document medical records of hospitalized individuals in Juquery the period mentioned above, in publications of the doctors who worked in Juquery in scientific journals of the time, as well as in several texts published by Pacheco e Silva throughout his long career.
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