A gênese, a constituição e a implementação da Escola de Medicina e Cirurgia de Uberlândia 1954 a 1978

Abstract

This work\'s main aim is to identify the School of Medicine and Surgery\'s (EMECIU) origin, formation and implementation. It represents a part of the works in survey of the Federal University of Uberlândia\'s History and Historiography of Education. It takes part in the field of History of educational institutions. The investigation method includes bibliographical research, documentary research, and uses the oral evidence of people who experienced parts of these particular moment in History. According to documental archeology, the period from 1954 to 1978 presents the first signs that suggest the public presentation of the creation of a Medical School in Uberlândia until the end of the federalization process of that institution in 1978, which used to work as a Private Medical School. The theorectical fundamentation approaches to the concept of collective representations given by Roger Chartier which was expanded by the author of this work into two new perceptions: projective discursive tactics and conciliatory discursive tactics. The survey\'s result highlights that there was a project of predominant classes for Uberlândia, which determined the ampliation of as many fields as possible in order to dream up and support the industry growth as well as business and higher education growth, and also the development of all the productive segments of the local society. Aiming at the same perspective, the reciprocal approximation between doctors who strived to start the Medical School and the political leaders who started to reverberate the collective representations of the doctors are, in fact, signs of a bigger project dreamed up by Uberlândia\'s political forces with the aim of building a modernized and productivally vigorous city so it could leave its anonymous position in the country. The beginning of Uberlândia\'s Medical School was strongly connected to the current city project during the riots pro the foundation of the University of Uberlândia, considerating the higher education institution as one of the most valuable representations for the local society. Apparentely, the Medical School also came because of the same reasons.