Medicina, saúde e educação: o discurso médico-eugênico nas teses doutorais da Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia de São Paulo entre 1920 e 1939

Intersections between education and health reforms in Brazil: when the "target population" is an active builder of the public policy

“…The "trend" begun by Morel on biological explanations for social differences set the origins of eugenics, proposed by Francis Galton as a "science" for the "improvement of the race" (Navarro, 2010). Such thinking only became officially considered a pseudoscience after the end of the Second World War (Verzolla, 2017). During Hitler's Reich, eugenic laws allowing for "sterilization of the degenerate" people and "merciful death" for the "mentally ill" were installed from the beginning (Navarro, 2010).…”