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| Author(s): |
Edivaldo Gois Jr.
[1]
Total Authors: 1
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Educação Física e Humanidades - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | História, Ciências, Saúde : Manguinhos; v. 27, n. 1, p. 93-113, 2020-03-23. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract The way old age was depicted during the 1930s, in Brazilian modernity, is investigated. A historical study was conducted using as its sources newspapers and magazines published in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as medical periodicals. It showed that the particularities and contradictions of Brazilian modernity contributed to a variety of representations of old age. The analysis of the documentary corpus failed to reveal a homogenous description of old age, but identified a considerable increase in the power of scientific and medical knowledge about behaviors considered adequate with regard to bodies in the 1930s. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/00617-6 - Body education and Brazilian identities: representations about youth and aging in the building of nation in 1930s |
| Grantee: | Edivaldo Góis Junior |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |