“A nossa saúde está aqui”: os discursos médico-higienistas e a medicalização dos corpos na revista Era Nova (Parahyba, 1921-1925).

Abstract

This dissertation aims to problematize the dissemination of medical hygienists speeches, medicalization and the representations of bodies in Parahyba. The setting chosen for this analysis was the illustrated magazine was circulated in New Parahyba between the years 1921 and 1925 time frame of this research. Such journal was entered in a national circuit of printed production announced and illustrated the archetypes of modernity in its pages. The intended modernity in this period had in the scientific field and especially in areas such as medicine, eugenics, hygienist, and the allies sanitarimos and promoters of a crusade against the delay, "degenerância of the races", dirt and disease, which second the thought plagued the country. Thus, our narrative is guided by cultural history and the history of health and disease, as evidenced studies of representations of the body and corporeality, in dialogue with the field of sensitivities, as we seek to question the different ways of perceiving and describe the patient's body and the body healthy and the education strategies of the senses and incentives to new daily practices buoyed by scientific discourse, that I thought to civilize, standardize and medicalize the body, making it healthy, current with the medical and health requirements .