[Health care: the place for the invention of a new scientific paradigm]. / Cuidar em saúde: lugar da invenção de um novo paradigma científico.

It is an essay about Care, basis of the practice and research, as place of invention, test, criticism and reconstruction of the Nursing specific knowledge. Health and well-being, quality, "L'état de l'art" and, yet, the experience of caring at the patients and Nurses' bodies are discussed.

[The nurse--construction of a behavior model, based on the medical discourse at the beginning of the century]. / Enfermeira--a construção de um modelo de comportamento a partir dos discursos médicos do início do século.

The purpose of this study is to trace a parallel between the medical discourse content and the expected and stereotyped nurses behavior at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is a historic-social approach in which authors analysed the speeches used by nurses and physicians at nursing and medicine schools. The analysis of the physicians discourse compared to nurses discourse revealed the formation of a mentality shaped by the medical power that wanted them "holy" and servile.

[Nursing--construction of a model based on the medical discourse]. / Enfermeira--a construção de um modelo a partir do discurso médico.

The purpose is to trace a parallel between the medical discourse contents and the expected and stereotyped nurses behavior at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is a historic-social approach in which was made use of speeches uttered by nurses and physicians at nursing and medicine schools. The analysis of physicians discourse compared to nurses discourse disclose the formation of a mentality shaped and turned docile by the medical power which wanted them holy and servile.