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Carlos Chagas e os debates e controvérsias sobre a doença do Brasil (1909-1923) / Carlos Chagas and the debates and controversies surrounding the disease of Brazil (1909-1923)
Kropf, Simone Petraglia.
  • Kropf, Simone Petraglia; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro. BR
Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos ; 16(supl.1): 205-227, July 2009.
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-518515
RESUMO
Analisa o debate sobre a doença de Chagas, descoberta em 1909, em sua relação com a campanha pelo saneamento rural do Brasil (1916-1920). Argumenta que as bandeiras desse movimento estiveram diretamente referidas à definição e à legitimação dessa enfermidade como fato científico e problema social. A 'nova moléstia tropical', apresentada como emblema das endemia rurais, foi caracterizada como 'doença do Brasil', símbolo de um 'país doente'. A campanha sanitarista foi, por sua vez, elemento decisivo da polêmica em torno da doença de 1919 a 1923. Trata-se, portanto, de um caso exemplar de como as teorias da medicina tropical europeia foram utilizadas pelos cientistas brasileiros para produzir conhecimentos originais nesse campo, a partir de sentidos específicos ao contexto nacional do período.
ABSTRACT
The article explores the relation between the debate on Chagas' disease, discovered in 1909, and Brazil's 1916-1920 rural sanitation campaign. It argues that the political planks of the sanitary movement were intimately bound up with the definition and legitimization of this illness as a scientific fact and social issue. Presented as emblematic of rural endemic disease, this 'new tropical ailment' was characterized as 'the disease of Brazil', symbol of a 'sickly country'. The sanitary campaign was in turn a decisive element of the 1919-1923 polemic surrounding the disease. This is an exemplary case of how Brazilian scientists used theories from European tropical medicine to produce original knowledge in the field, basing themselves on meanings specific to the national context of their day.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Sanitation / Chagas Disease / Endemic Diseases / Dissent and Disputes Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: Portuguese Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2009 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/BR

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Sanitation / Chagas Disease / Endemic Diseases / Dissent and Disputes Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: Portuguese Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2009 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/BR