title: [Ceroplastics and forensic medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, 1934-1950].
abstract: This article investigates the relationships between ceroplastics and the institutionalization of forensic medicine as a discipline at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. The wax models, representing diseases or body parts that were the subject of medical forensic investigation, were produced by Augusto Esteves between 1936 and 1960. It is believed that the ceroplastic production represented the program devised by Flamínio Fávero, full professor of forensic medicine between 1923 and 1955. The comparison between the wax pieces at Museu Técnico-Científico (a science and technology museum) at Instituto Oscar Freire and the treatise on forensic medicine by Fávero, first published in 1938, indicates that such a supposition is plausible.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas/Faculdades de Campinas. Estrada Municipal Unicamp-Telebrás km 1, s.n. - Cidade Universitária 13083-970 - Campinas - SP - Brasil. jorgecarreta@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Jorge Augusto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Carreta
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history