As a case study, we analyze an article of the psychiatrist Henrique Roxo published in 1942 in two publications directed to different publics. The communication of science was intended as part of Brazil's modernizing project of the epoch. Roxo's case reveals that the language used by science communicators, although sometimes of difficult apprehension, was part of an strategy of acknowledgment of the medical authority for the diagnosis and treatment of the mental illnesses.
Date of publication
Jul 20, 2017
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The communication of psychiatry in Brazilian press (1930–1940)
Volume 16Issue 032017Special Issue: History of Science Communication, 2017 (History of Scicomm)