Entre jornais e saúde: a constituição do projeto sanitarista no imaginário brasileiro entre os anos 1910 e 1940.

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the development of public health in the state of Minas Gerais during the first half of the 20th century, given the processes of institutionalization, health education and construction of the social imaginary of health. The research is based on the historiographical debate and its sources are Minas Gerais newspapers published between 1920 and 1940. The project will analyze the performance of public health policies with a focus on the bureaucratization of Minas Gerais health bodies, it will also work on the role of the press in the formation of social imaginary of health and hygiene and how health education was used as an instrument of social control to shape behaviors and moral values of society based on hygienist notions. The analysis of sources will take place in provincial newspapers which were organized based on the guidelines of the capital of Minas Gerais and made use of symbols, texts and images to emphasize the action of personal hygiene with the consolidation of a healthy community and the country's sense of progress.