O império da fome e do amor: Estácio de Lima e os determinismos em medicina legal

Abstract

This research studies part of the forensic work of a Brazilian author, born in Alagoas, called Estácio [Luiz Valente] de Lima (1897-1984), which like other doctors and jurists their predecessors or contemporaries held a positivist thinking in their delicate points of view (due to its own complexity) of explicative attempts of human and social behaviors in relation to banditry and homosexuality between the years of 1926 (when he empowers in the chair of the Forensic Medicine of Medical School of Bahia) and 1945 (with the end of the intervening and the Estado Novo and with the release of the ex-bandits arrested in Salvador), based on an experimental human bodies anthropometric and physiological study and becoming one of the representatives of biological determinism within the scientific mentality of his time.