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Artigos • Rev. latinoam. psicopatol. fundam. 11 (4 suppl) • Dec 2008 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-47142008000500004   copy

The disease known as banzo: excerpts from Sigaud and von Martius [1844]

This article discusses two important studies on disease in 19th century Brazil, written, respectively, by Joseph François Xavier Sigaud and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Both describe the slave nostalgia, the disease known as "banzo".

Slavery; psychopathology; Joseph François Xavier Sigaud; Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

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