| Grant number: | 15/08002-8 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| Start date: | July 01, 2015 |
| End date: | June 30, 2017 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - History - History of Brazil |
| Agreement: | Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) |
| Principal Investigator: | Valéria dos Santos Guimarães |
| Grantee: | Priscila Bermudes Peixoto |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil |
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the eugenicist medical speech, which was about the premarital medical examination occurred in the medical environment and the sanitary practices in Brazil, specially, Rio de Janeiro, in the early twentieth century. During this period, the capital of Brazil was the stage of the increase of an urban-industrial development, generating problems related to organization and sanitation. The social medicine, based on the hygienist and eugenicist doctrines, would intervene in the daily basis of the population by establishing standards of conduct, intending to prevent diseases and epidemics. The defense of its realization, gathered doctors who could prevent or postpone marriages when one of the spouses had any disease, always guided by supposed preventive and necessary measures concerning what they believed to be a racial upgrading. Taking as a reference the notion of the speech as a group of rules appropriate to its practice, constituted by conflicts and intern tensions, we are going to show how the doctors tried to impose their knowledge to society, in other words, what were their motivations to transform the premarital examination in an applicable law in all over the country. (AU) | |
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