“Sanear, educar e povoar”: higiene, disciplina e progresso nos impressos de Uberlândia e Araguari (1930-1945)

Abstract

The purpose of the dissertation is to problematize the nationalizing and civilizing function granted to the health sector in the years of 1930 to 1945 as well as the discourses about moral, disciplinarization and progress that were integrated to health precepts widespread by newspapers. It aims to analyse the discourses that evoke the formation of a healthier people in a spiritual, moral, physical and intellectual way, wich are reiterated and irradiated in the articles that were part of the health education project. To attend these goals, were analyzed texts that involve health issues disseminated by newspapers from the cities of Uberlândia and Araguari, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The sources of investigation will be the following newspapers: O Triângulo, from Araguari, and A Tribuna, Correio de Uberlândia, Jornal de Uberlândia, O Bandeirante, O Estado de Goyaz and Voz Central, from Uberlândia. The written press in the present research is a key element to make understandable the public health politics of Getúlio Vargas government and how it was fundamental for the dissemination of discourses and political actions linked to governmental interests in the attempt to mold men and women, guiding behaviors and insinuating the appropriate social conducts.