Beatriz Teixeira Weber

Positivismo e ciência médica no Rio Grande do Sul: a Faculdade de Medicina de Porto Alegre

The article analyzes conflicts and interests at one of Rio Grande de Suls main centers for medical science, the Faculdade de Medicina de Porto Alegre. It explores the meaning and impact of the emergence of this specific, exclusive field of knowledge in a state where positivist principles of professional freedom were adopted by successive administrations during the early period of the Republic. Physicians there launched an entrenched war to uphold the principles of science over faith and politics, challenging the positivism of the party which held power in Rio Grande do Sul throughout the years. This perspective grew and developed in a climate of conflict and doubts among physicians, within a political context that differed from the rest of Brazil.

Identidade e corporação médica no sul do Brasil na primeira metade do século XX

This text analyses the medical organization in Rio Grande do Sul state, in Brazil, through the doctor’s performances at Santa Casa de Misericordia in Porto Alegre city, at the Medicina Faculty and at the Rio-Grandense Medical Union. The doctors’ proposal conflicted with the Positivist political organization which was part of the local government up to 1928, which aimed the end of the professional freedom in the state. The medical organization was consolidated with the national regulation for the medicine practice and correlated professions in 1932, although there was problems for its accomplishment in Rio Grande do Sul. The effective organization of the medical activity happened with the rearrangement of hygiene services and public health, through the Regulation of the State and Health Department of Rio Grande do Sul, in 1938, which determined in details all the duties of social medical care.

Saúde pública e governos Positivistas: os limites da prática

The article discuses the public health care in the positivist governments in Rio Grande do Sul in the beginning of the twentieth century, The positivist associate preached the non-intervention in health, but, in practice, they adapted the same measures they criticized.

Padre Gay: um cônego ilustrado na campanha gaúcha

The present article is a reflexion about the priest Joao Pedro Gay, that worked in Alegrete and Uruguaiana from 1848 to 1891, as a secular clergyman. The documentacion used is part of yours personal records, found at the filing department of the Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro. Your activities were diversifies. We detach your performed with homeopathy in the interior of the Rio Grande do Sul.