PEREIRA, A. C. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1503986282801391; PEREIRA, Antônio Carlos dos Santos.
Resumo:
This work aims to analyze the forms of aging considered healthy or not, in the book
“Envelheça Sorrindo”, by the eugenic physician Renato Kehl, published in 1949. Using
the concepts of discourse, biopolitics, eugenics, body and old age, this work also it
proposes, from Michel Foucault's treatises, to raise and problematize intrinsic
questions in the eugenicist medical discourses on the aging body from the initially
mentioned work. For the development of this research, we chose Discourse Analysis,
in Michel Foucault, as the Investigation and observation methodology in order to
understand the discursive structures and medical practices aimed at the elderly,
prophylaxis and diseases related to the aging body, and other issues involving the
elderly subject and ways of aging, based on medical considerations and
recommendations, as part of a biopolitical project on self-care, with the body and the
promotion of life. The study of the analyzed work made it possible to identify the
subjectivities and structures of the eugenic discourses of the physician Renato Kehl,
in the first half of the 20th century, which highlights the emergence of ageist discourses
and practices that still affect the aging body and old age even today. in our Brazilian
society, commonly taken as an invalid, dirty, ugly, weak, morbid and sick body, and
that should be avoided by all those who sought, in clinical medicine, devices and
strategies to possess and promote a beautiful, healthy, healthy and long-lived.