Residency period: March 3 to December 31, 2025
Department of Clinical Medicine – UFMG School of Medicine
Luciana Diniz Silva has a degree in medicine from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, 1995), a medical residency in Internal Medicine from Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte (1997) and in Gastroenterology from Hospital Governador Israel Pinheiro-IPSEMG (1999), and a master’s and doctorate in Medicine (Gastroenterology) from UFMG (2002 and 2006, respectively). She holds a specialization in nutrology from the University of São Paulo (USP) (2020-2022). She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and a permanent professor in the Postgraduate Program in Sciences Applied to Adult Health at the School of Medicine, UFMG. Research Group Coordinator at the Institute for Advanced and Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT), UFMG (2023 – 2025). She works in research, with an emphasis on the following themes: Sarcopenia in chronic viral hepatitis B and C; The history of the body and the body in history: body composition, eugenics and resistance to ethnic diversity. He is a member of the Brazilian Association of Medical Education, the Brazilian Society for the History of Science (SBHC), the Brazilian Society for the History of Medicine (SBHM), and the American Association for the History of Medicine.
HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF BODY IMAGE OBTAINED FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MEDICINE MEMORY CENTER (CEMEMOR) – FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS: EUGENICS AND RESISTANCE TO ETHNIC DIVERSITY
Given the importance given to body image in our society, students and professors from various courses at UFMG, together, conducted research and selected works at the Minas Gerais Medical Memory Center that addressed the aesthetics and standards of the human body, as well as the predetermined ideals for physical and intellectual beauty. In this initial investigation, they came across a vast amount of material with a eugenicist slant. Stimulated by the wealth of material, the researchers aim to describe and critically reflect on the body image established as a “standard” in the 20th century. They also seek to investigate how medical practices, the study of anatomy and the advancement of science that occurred in the 20th century influenced the determination of the “standard body” in Brazilian society. The specific objectives include: Developing a theoretical framework, from the perspective of Michel Foucault; Investigating the influence of eugenic medical thought on the definition and structuring of the “standard” body of the 20th century Brazilian. To achieve these objectives, we intend to carry out documentary research, covering the period from 1911 to 1949. The initial selection of items from the collection will be based on the source analysis plan using the triple approach. This material will then be digitized and then shown to professors and students from the School of Medicine, School of Fine Arts, and Departments of Philosophy and History of the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences, in transdisciplinary meetings recorded on a digital platform. Over time, the consequences of demanding “ideal dimensions” of bodies that are disconnected from the ethnic and cultural identity of a population can be catastrophic.