Public Policy, Medicine and leprosy in the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930)

• Autor(a) principal: Stabelini, Thaysa Lauara Loiola
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Bovcalovski, Etiane Caloy
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Temporalidades
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/temporalidades/article/view/5801
• topic: Brasil; Lepra; República; Brazil; Leprosy; Republic

This research aims to study the Public Policy that developed in the period of the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930) in relation to leprosy, analyze and understand the relevance of the medical discourse about the disease and patients and its political-ideological character the construction of the Republic. The methodology was used bibliographical research, survey of documentary sources and local consultation in the Public Library of Paraná, in the Rare Books section of the PUC-PR and Sanitary Dermatology Hospital of Paraná. As theoretical foundation were used authors History and Sociology area as Cabral, Castro, Corbain, Cunha, among others. The results show that the disease has not been among the priorities set by the federal government until the first decade of the twentieth century, when it became a health problem of greater relevance. Thus, public authorities and doctors constructed a coherent discourse on the need to isolate patients and invested in medical and scientific nature campaigns, culminating with the predominance of sanitarism-campaigner until the early 60s.