Breve história da formação do espaço e da administração do Instituto Oscar Freire de Medicina Legal (1923-1938)

Abstract

This article uses historiographical references and institutional documentation to observe the history of the Oscar Freire Institute of Legal Medicine (IOF) as the fabrication of a social space and an specialized bureaucracy, among regulations, positions, laws and hierarchies, during the years of 1923 to 1938. To this end, two interconnected historical processes are overviewed and exposed in two separate topics during the article: the first relating to the assembly of the legal and administrative entity of the IOF and the second focused on the production of the institution's physical space. Both topics demonstrate the organization of a network of texts and agents that contributed to the institutionalization of the Legal Medicine in São Paulo and determined the position of dominance of the institute as an administrative machinery, specialized in forensic practice and teaching. Along this path, it becomes clear how intra and inter-institutional mechanisms became entangled in the configuration of the IOF in São Paulo, both inseparable from the historical context of disputes and negotiations surrounding Forensic Medicine institutionalization.