Faculdade de medicina: corpo, modernidade e sensibilidade em Campina Grande (1960-1970).

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the medical school as a space producing new knowledge and medical practices in the city of Campina Grande in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century. This institution was created during the military government whose logic was based on developmental support to the sectors of education and technology, but also represented a yearning of the local elite who saw the institution as a major breakthrough for the medical area in the city in the year is celebrating its centenary. Having initially worked as a private school, that institution was the first medical school in the Brazilian Northeast. In this sense, our study has focused on the everyday practices undertaken by students and professors, by changes in sensitivity and design of the body through laboratory techniques, the theoretical and practical lessons developed within that institution in that period (1960/1970 .) From this perspective, we would emphasize the importance it now has the Faculty to meet student demand coming from the elite or derived from the popular classes through a scholarship sponsored by the government. To the Campinense community the Faculty of Medicine gave himself some free services such as vaccinations, care in pregnancy, surgery, consultations in various medical specialties through the FAP Hospital (Assistance Foundation of Paraíba) by its doctors and its students. As to the sources exploited in making this work, we turn to the analysis of verbal reports of memories of subjects who experienced this historic moment, newspaper articles, medical reports and photographs in line with the representations that were built on the institution.