Banca de DEFESA: AVILA MONTEIRO SILVA

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STUDENT : AVILA MONTEIRO SILVA
DATE: 07/04/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

TUBERCULOSIS AND HEALTH POLICIES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUBERCULOUS BODY AS A SPACE OF INTERVENTION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF GUSTAVO CAPANEMA (1934–1945)

KEY WORDS:

Tuberculosis; Public health policies; Body; Space of intervention; Gustavo Capanema.

 

PAGES: 158
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research investigates the construction of the tuberculous body as a space of intervention of public health policies during the administration of Gustavo Capanema (1934 -1945). The study seeks
to understand how tuberculosis, throughout the twentieth century, shaped social practices, discourses, and public policies in Brazil, transforming the sick body into an object of control and normalization by different forms of knowledge and institutions. The theoretical framework is based on authors such as Bertolli Filho (2001), who discusses the history of tuberculosis and the tuberculous patient in Brazil; Michel Foucault (2001), who, in theoretical terms, conceives the body as a space a concept essential to this research; Lenharo (1986), who also addresses the centrality of the body, focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, when several institutions turned their attention to the normalization of bodies; and Mehy (2014), who contributes to understanding public policies as a field of disputes and institutional practices.The study contextualizes the debate on health and disease in Brazil, highlighting the centrality of tuberculosis for physicians, jurists, public administrators, and other social agents, proposing a shift from the traditional focus on the disease to the body as a space of intervention. The concept of spatiality is mobilized to analyze how the sick body became, over time, an observable, normalized, and politically invested space. The dissertation is structured in three moments. First, it analyzes the historical and social context of the 1930s and 1940s and the strategies of tuberculosis prophylaxis within the Ministry of Education and Health. Next, it examines how the press, medical congresses, and education acted as devices for the circulation and consolidation of scientific, hygienist, and eugenic conceptions, highlighting the role of schools and Physical Education in the intervention upon bodies. Finally, it analyzes the materiality of these policies through the spaces produced around the disease such as sanatoriums, dispensaries, hospitals, and preventoria evidencing medical classifications, strategies of isolation, and spatial transformations that configured distinct ways of organizing and managing the tuberculous body. Throughout this process, it also discusses the centrality of the body as a space of symbolic and practical dispute, considering its multiple dimensions, whether legal, educational, demographic, religious, or architectural. Methodologically, the research is based on documentary analysis, having as its main source documents belonging to the Gustavo Capanema Personal Archive (CPDOC/FGV), complemented by other official records and medical periodicals of the time.

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