Knowledge, power and embodiment in the smallpox eradication campaign - Brazil, 1960-1980

• Grant number: 15/21537-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: September 13, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Heloísa André Pontes
• Grantee: Jonatan Jackson Sacramento
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/19402-0 - Gender, science and health in the Smallpox Eradication Campaign (Brazil, 1960-1980), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This project aims at analyzing the Campaign for the Eradication of Smallpox on which the Brazilian government embarked in 1960 and 1970. To achieve that one intends to mobilize several documentary and literary sources, aiming at circumscribing the campaign as the sketch of a national health care system, of its ways and particularities in the daily life at that time. Beside the historical reconstruction of the campaign, in an exercise of anthropology of institutions, one aims not only at comprehending the relations between State, society and culture, but also in their knowledges and practices, by means of the experience of smallpox to agents of the State and to target population of the campaign. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SACRAMENTO, Jonatan Jackson. Knowledge, power and embodiment: the biopolitics of smallpox's eradication. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.