Cuidar, controlar, curar: ensaios históricos sobre saúde e doença na América Latina e Caribe

Doctors, Social Scientists, and Backlands Peoples: Continuity and Change in Representations of Brazil's Rural World

“…Studies of public health in the First Republic have underlined the repercussions ofthe ide as mobilized in these texts, especially in terms of the ir references Lima 1 Doctors,Social Scientists,and Backlands People 41 to sanitation and its relevance to the process of building the nationstate (Castro Santos 1987Santos , 2004Hochman 1998;Lima and Hochman 1996;Lima 2007). 2 The photographie images that illustrated the publications have also received the attention ofhistorians, who have shown that they contain possibilities for multiple readings (Mello and Pires-Alves 2009;Stepan 2001;Thielen et al 2002).…”

“…Soon, however, it became involved in sanitation activities in other cities, particularly in other state capitals and in coastal ports and cities of the interior. This intervention in urban spaces, accompanied by battles against epidemies of diseases like yellow fever, bubonic plague, and smallpox, was followed by an intense public campaign for rural sanitation and the centralization of health services under a single, dedicated ministry (Castro Santos 1987Santos , 2004Hochman 1998). …”

“…Among the field trips, the one that would become best known was that of Arthur Neiva and Belisârio Penna, which visited locales in the states of Bahia, Piaui, and Goias. In the space of seven months, from March to October 1912, the two doctors were responsible for improving the living conditions of the local populations, for compiling an expressive photographie registry, and for the account that bec ame a point of reference for the movement for rural sanitation during the First Republic (Castro Santos 1987Santos , 2004Hochman 1998;Lima 1999). The "discovery" of this unknown and diseased Brazil in the medical expeditions of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-especially the discoveries by Carlos Chagas-generated one of the phrases that would become emblematic of the movement for rural sanitation ofthe backlands and of the creation of the Pro-Sanitation League ofBrazil: Brasil imenso hospital ("Brazil-an immense hospital"), a powerful expression first coined by the physician Miguel Pereira in 1916 (Sa 2009).…”

Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

“…Many images characterise this scenario, but Urupês, by Monteiro Lobato (2019[1918), may offer a unique expression of this imaginary. Centered on the character Jeca Tatu - a yellowish, weak, uneducated, worm-ridden man - the widely-read author of Brazilian fiction described the country at the turn of the 20th century as "a great hospital" (Lima & Hochman, 2004). 5 On one hand, time after time, syphilis, smallpox, plague, and yellow fever raged through the Brazilian capital.…”

Políticas Internacionais de Saúde na Era Vargas: o Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública, 1942-1960

“…Atualmente, há uma vasta produção no campo da história da saúde pública, que rompeu com esses limites interpretativos e adotou urna perspectiva multi •e interdisciplinar. Mais recentemente, Armus (2002Armus ( , 2003) e Hochman & Armus (2004), ao mapearem as tendências da produção deste campo na América Latina, identificaram um quadro bem mais complexo do que o descrito por Porter. Segundo os autores, a produção histórica renovada "pode ser apresentada como uma espécie de mosaico de enfoques, estilos, objetos e narrativas", apenas unificado pela negação a modelos, práticas e certezas que, até recentemente, eram consensuais.…”