“For prisoners, Your Honor: no hospital”: The health care offered to poor inmates in the province of São Pedro

Authors

  • Tiago da Silva Cesar Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the medical services and hospital care provided to poor inmates of Casa de Correção de Porto Alegre (1855-1888), while extending the observation to the set of imperial prisons in the province of São Pedro. A brief historical background on depravation of liberty in a society that uses brutality as punishment, and some aspects of the medical and hospital services provisioned to the poor prisoners of the 1800s. Which institutions are involved? What was the role of the State? Which were the services, care and equipment offered to these prisoners? Were doctors, treatments and nursing, considered essential and even claimed as a resource for healing? These are some of the questions to be answered in this study.

Keywords: deprivation of freedom, medical and hospital care, prisons, Rio Grande do Sul.

Author Biography

Tiago da Silva Cesar, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP)

Doutor em História pela Universidade de Córdoba, UCO, Espanha (2010). Título revalidado pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS (2011). Mestrado em História pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS (2014). Licenciado em História pela UNISINOS (2003). Tem formação teórica e prática na área da documentação digital e eletrônica, tendo trabalhado em arquivos históricos no Brasil e na Espanha. Dedica-se à história contemporânea do Brasil e da Espanha, com ênfase na história social das instituições punitivas, sistemas carcerários e polícia. Atualmente desenvolve pesquisas sobre a formação da rede carcerária no Rio Grande do Sul e Pernambuco imperial (1850-1889) e Coordena o Projeto de Extensão: Resgate do acervo documental da Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Recife.

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Published

2015-06-08

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): May/August

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