LEMOS, Flávia Cristina Silveira.; GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.; RODRIGUES, Robert Damasceno.
Resumo:
This article, with a genealogical approach and Michel Foucault’s tools, discusses the practices of United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) in Brazil geared towards children and adolescents in relation to the effects of medicalization of life. It is a historical and
documentary research on reports produced by UNICEF Brazil, national head office of the multilateral agency. In the set of practices
of that agency, those specific to medication of children and adolescents are highlighted. The documentary analysis allows us to
assert that even when the practices prescribed in the reports aim at promoting, assuring, and protecting the rights of children and
adolescents, they are articulated to a medicalization plan, through hygienist interventions and governance of conducts. In that way,
paradoxically, the practices that promote rights of that agency end up forging control and health, being a new challenge referring to
the problems reported in childhood and youth.