History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

Speaker:
Dr. Eyal Weinberg (Florida, US)
Historian of modern Latin America, with a focus on Brazil
Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
 
Presentation:
"Medical Ethics, Health Struggles, and Family Planning in Cold War Brazil"
 
["Ética Médica, Lutas pela Saúde e Planejamento Familiar no Brasil durante a Guerra Fria"].
 
(The lecture will be in English)
 
Suggested Readings:
 
1—Eyal Weinberg, “Planning a Brazilian Family: Birth Control, Sterilization, and the Welfare of Society,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe Vol. 34. No. 2 (2023): 97-121 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379276476_Planning_a_Family_Bir...
 
2- Edméia de Almeida Cardoso Coelho, Maria de Fátima Gomes de Lucena, and Ana Tereza de Medeiros Silva, “O planejamento familiar no Brasil no contexto das políticas públicas de saúde: determinantes históricos,” Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 34:1 (2000), pp. 37–44.
https://www.scielo.br/j/reeusp/a/GrTf3vFznTHzrbmnDHQHtDP
 
3- Sarah Escorel, Reviravolta na saúde: origem e articulação do movimento sanitário (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 1999).
https://static.scielo.org/scielobooks/qxhc3/pdf/escorel-9788575413616.pdf
 
4 - Gilberto Hochman and Diego Armus, eds., Cuidar, controlar, curar ensaios históricos sobre saúde e doença na América Latina e Caribe (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 2004)
https://portal.fiocruz.br/livro/cuidar-controlar-curar-ensaios-historico...
 
 
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To learn more about Dr. Weinberg, please click here.
 
 
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Speaker:
M.Sc. Lucas Carvalho do Nascimento Nogueira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
PhD student in the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health, Fiocruz — Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC).
Professor at the Department of Education of the State of Minas Gerais.
 
Presentation:
"Aprenda a planejar a sua família, o nascimento dos bons: controle populacional no Brasil, 1961-1993.”
[“Learning Family Planning, Birthing the Better: Population Control in Brazil, 1961-1993.”].
 
Suggested Readings:
1-  Levine, Philippa, Eugenics : a very short introduction / : New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2017] |Series: Very short introductions. Pages: 97-120.
https://academic.oup.com/book/825/chapter-abstract/135446303?redirectedF...
 
2- RAMSDEN, Edmund. Confronting the Stigma of Eugenics: Genetics, Demography and the Problems of Population: Social Studies of Science, December 2009, Vol. 39, No. 6 (December 2009), pp. 853-884.
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20506743/  
 
3 – MERCHANT, Emily K. American Demographers and Global Population Policy in the Postwar World. Modern American History (2021), 4, 239–261 doi:10.1017/mah.2021.22.
Link:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/...
 
4- BHERING, Marcos Jungmann
Controle de natalidade no Brasil: um estudo sobre o Centro de Pesquisas e Assistência Integral à Mulher e à Criança (1975-1994). Tese (Doutorado em História das Ciências e da Saúde) – Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, 2014. 202 f. Cap 04 – páginas, 129-156.
https://ppghcs.coc.fiocruz.br/images/dissertacoes/teste/tese_marcos_bher...
 
 
 
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To learn more about M.Sc. Nogueira, please click here.
 
The presentation will be in Portuguese.

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Dr. Leonardo Dallacqua de Carvalho (Brazil)
Graduate Program in History at State University of Maranhão - UEMA, Brazil.
PhD in History of Sciences at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2019).
 
 
Presentation:
“Eugenics e (Hi)story-play-spaces: jogos eletrônicos e eugenia nas narrativas históricas".
[Eugenics and (Hi)story-play-spaces: Electronic Games and Eugenics in Historical Narratives].

 
Suggested Readings:
 
1—Dallacqua, L. (2023). Games e a “ciência de Galton”: referências à eugenia no jogo eletrônico Red Dead Redemption 2. ArtCultura, 25(46), 259–276. 
 

2—Chapman, A., Foka, A., & Westin, J. (2016). Introduction: what is historical game studies? Rethinking History, 21(3), 358–371. 
 
 
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To learn more about Dr. Carvalho, please click here.
 
 
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Speaker:
Dr. Mércio Pereira Gomes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Anthropologist, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil.

Former President of Funai (National Indigenous People Foundation) from 2003 to 2007.

 
Presentation:
“Genética: a última fronteira para se entender os povos indígenas e sua mestiçagem no Brasil".
 
[Genetics: The Final Frontier in Understanding Indigenous Peoples and Their Miscegenation in Brazil].”
 
Suggested Readings:
 
1—Gomes, M. P. (2019). O Brasil Inevitável: Ética, Mestiçagem e Borogodó. Topbooks. Read Book.
 
2—Gomes, M. P. (2012). Índios no Brasil. Contexto. Read Book.
 
Explore Previous Works:
To learn more about Dr. Gomes, please click here.
 
 
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Speaker:
Dr. Ilana Löwy (Paris, France)
Emerita Senior Research Fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
 
Presentation:
“Zika e a questão complexa do aborto 'eugênico' por indicação fetal. [Zika and the tangled issue of an 'eugenic' abortion for fetal indication].”
 
New book by the author: Löwy, I. (2024). Viruses and Reproductive Injustice. Johns Hopkins University Press. Please access more information about the book here.
 

Suggested Readings:
 
1—Löwy, I. (2020). Abortion for fetal anomaly: how to speak about a difficult topic. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 36. Read Article.
 
2—Paul, D. Β., & Löwy, I. (2018). On Objectivity in Prenatal Genetic Care. OBM Genetics, 2(2), 1–1. Read Article.
 
3—Löwy, I. (2024). Chapter Two (Fetuses: Women, Doctors, and the Law) from 'Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil'. Johns Hopkins University Press. (Attached on our website).
 

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To learn more about Dr. Löwy, please click here.
 
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Speaker: 
M.Sc. Alexandre Verçosa Greco (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Master's graduate (2023) from the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz. 
Professor at the Department of Education of the State of Rio de Janeiro, SEEDUC/RJ.
 
Presentation:
“O médico Mário Victor de Assis Pacheco no debate sobre o controle populacional (1968-1985)” [Doctor Mário Victor de Assis Pacheco in the debate on population control (1968-1985)].

 
Explore Previous Works:
To learn more about Mr. Greco, please click here to access his Master's thesis.
 
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Speakers: 
Dr. Rosanna Dent
New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, United States.
 
Dr. Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
 
Presentation: “Listening Party: Trabalho de Campo por um Geneticista e um Técnico” [Fieldwork by a Geneticist and a Technician].
 
See Website: https://hogenetica.org/
 
*The speakers recommend that group members familiarize themselves with the website and listen to interviews they find interesting before the session.
 
Explore Previous Works: To learn more about Dr. Gomes, please click here. For more information about Dr. Dent, click here. 
 
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Guest: Geandra Munareto, Postdoctoral Researcher, State University of Maringá, Brazil.
 
Presentation: “Raça e eugenia no contexto do pós-segunda guerra: o Pioneer Fund e a Mankind Quarterly como objetos de estudo”
 
Previous works/Website: https://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/bitstream/tede/7843/2/Tese%20-%20GEANDRA%20DENARDI%20MUNARETO.pdf (PhD Thesis).
 
Reading: Article attached. Please log in to access it. Kindly, do not share.

Guest: Alessandra Santana Soares e Barros, Full Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
 
Presentation: “Deficiência, diagnóstico de anomalias fetais e aborto: o caso da Síndrome de Down no Brasil”.
 
Previous works/Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandra-Barros-2
 
Reading: Attached are three texts by Alessandra Barros (please log in to see).

NOTE SPECIAL TIME
 
Guest: Pietra S. Diwan, Ph.D. in History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil)
 
Presentation: “A busca da excelência: eugenia, genética e transhumanismo. Estados Unidos, século XX”.
 
Previous works/Website: https://pietradiwan.com/bio/
 
Reading: “Human enhancement, ectogenesis and immortality: Russian cosmism and the archaeology of the transhumanism” (click here).