Lina Faria

Cooperação científica internacional: estilos de atuação da Fundação Rockefeller e da Fundação Ford

International nonprofit foundations are acknowledged for their role in supporting scientific research, training human resources (physicians, public health professionals, and nurses), and creating science institutions and health services in developing countries. Focusing on the work of foreign institutions like the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the current study aims to highlight several innovative and pioneering initiatives, considering their areas of action, priorities, diversification of activities, changes in guidelines, and partnerships with international and Brazilian institutions during the Pre- and Post-War periods. The study also analyzes how these foundations readjust their agendas as a function of the presence of new players, institutions, and objectives.

Contrapontos da história da hanseníase no Brasil: cenários de estigma e confinamento

As the fight against leprosy in Brazil, particularly in the state of Maranhao, is singled out for analysis, this paper discusses the different medical and ‘profane’ conceptions of the disease, in addition to the proposals of public health intervention, always challenged by rival doctrines or convictions about contagion, diffusion, and treatment. The changing epidemiological, medical (i.e., the practices of isolation), social, and cultural views (particularly the stigma associated with the notions of sin, purity and danger) will help the search for singularities in Maranhao, the state’s main ‘sanitarians’, political actors, and institutions, as well as for common historical elements, among Brazilian and other populations experiencing the disease.

Rockefeller Foundation and health assistance in São Paulo (1920-30): historical perspectives

The present paper aims at presenting a short history of health policies implemented in São Paulo in the 1920s and 1930s, trying to reach a more accurate understanding of the processes that led to the formulation of governmental health policies. The paper emphasizes Geraldo Horácio de Paula Sousas contribution to the history of health administration in Sáo Paulo in the first half of the twentieth century and his proposition of a new model of health assistance based on health units that would work as the structural axis of all public health activities in the state. Finally, it focuses on the support given by Rockefeller Foundation to Paula Sousas activities and on the disputes involved in the establishment of public health policies.

As profissões de saúde: uma análise crítica do cuidar

The article focuses on the activities of nurses and physical therapists within Brazil’s Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saude), especially the Family Health Program. With the appearance of new professions and redefinitions in the practices of traditional healthcare professions, the subsequent multiprofessional, interdisciplinary type of work has presented challenges when it comes to training new generations of healthcare providers, all part of an endeavor to humanize care and provide universalist, integrated, high-quality services. Collective health has contributed to this effort by networking with other fields of knowledge and human sciences. Healthcare fields have also sometimes tended to disregard any type of exchange with the human sciences, preferring to limit interactions to biomedical fields.

As práticas do cuidar na oncologia: a experiência da fisioterapia em pacientes com câncer de mama

Early oncology physical therapy has played a vital role in preventing and minimizing the side effects of treatment for breast cancer, a disease that strikes a large number of women. Physical therapy reduces the risks of complications and can restore the kinetic and functional integrity of organs and systems. With this emphasis on means of prevention, oncology physical therapy has expanded the professional activities of physical therapists and added to their required skill set in recent years, thereby reinforcing the field’s legitimate space within medicine. One of a physical therapist’s main duties today is to prevent problems and promote good health, and this service should be offered during all phases of breast cancer, from diagnosis through treatment and palliative care.Early oncology physical therapy has played a vital role in preventing and minimizing the side effects of treatment for breast cancer, a disease that strikes a large number of women. Physical therapy reduces the risks of complications and can restore the kinetic and functional integrity of organs and systems. With this emphasis on means of prevention, oncology physical therapy has expanded the professional activities of physical therapists and added to their required skill set in recent years, thereby reinforcing the fields legitimate space within medicine. One of a physical therapists main duties today is to prevent problems and promote good health, and this service should be offered during all phases of breast cancer, from diagnosis through treatment and palliative care.

Integração ensino-serviço-comunidade nos cenários de práticas na formação interdisciplinar em Saúde: uma experiência do Programa de Educação pelo Trabalho para a Saúde (PET-Saúde) no sul da Bahia, Brasil

A proposta do Programa de Educacao pelo Trabalho para a Saude (PET-Saude) da Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB) focaliza as relacoes entre saberes e praticas academicas, profissionais e populares, desenvolvendo uma postura critica e reflexiva na formulacao de problemas com base nas demandas concretas da comunidade, por meio do trabalho em equipe, fortalecendo a articulacao entre universidade e Rede de Atencao a Saude. O objetivo foi relatar a experiencia do PET-Saude em um curso de Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Saude na UFSB, em Porto Seguro, sul da Bahia, no periodo entre maio de 2016 e marco de 2017. Valoriza-se aqui a importância do processo ensino-aprendizagem vinculado aos cenarios das praticas na formacao em saude. A experiencia relatada esteve orientada pelos principios da pesquisa-acao na elaboracao do diagnostico participativo da situacao de saude do territorio para mudancas no contexto social e sanitario e debate da relevância social do ensino na formacao para o exercicio profissional.A proposta do Programa de Educacao pelo Trabalho para a Saude (PET-Saude) da Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB) focaliza as relacoes entre saberes e praticas academicas, profissionais e populares, desenvolvendo uma postura critica e reflexiva na formulacao de problemas com base nas demandas concretas da comunidade, por meio do trabalho em equipe, fortalecendo a articulacao entre universidade e Rede de Atencao a Saude. O objetivo foi relatar a experiencia do PET-Saude em um curso de Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Saude na UFSB, em Porto Seguro, sul da Bahia, no periodo entre maio de 2016 e marco de 2017. Valoriza-se aqui a importância do processo ensino-aprendizagem vinculado aos cenarios das praticas na formacao em saude. A experiencia relatada esteve orientada pelos principios da pesquisa-acao na elaboracao do diagnostico participativo da situacao de saude do territorio para mudancas no contexto social e sanitario e debate da relevância social do ensino na formacao para o exercicio profissional.

A hanseníase e sua história no Brasil: a história de um “flagelo nacional”

v.22, n.4, out.-dez. 2015, p.1491-1495 1491 Fruto de uma tese de doutorado em história pela Universidade Federal Fluminense, orientada por André Luiz Vieira de Campos, Lepra, medicina e políticas de saúde no Brasil (1894-1934), de Dilma Cabral, representa uma nova contribuição à historiografia, que já se consolidou no Brasil e é discutida amplamente pela autora, pesquisadora do Arquivo Nacional. O período focalizado, dos primeiros anos da República até os anos da Revolução de 1930, é essencial para se entender a relação entre instituições nacionais e pensamento e ação sanitárias, quando se intensificou a interação com a conjuntura internacional. Como se sabe, o termo hanseníase é criação recente no Brasil, a metáfora que procura abrandar um estigma, mas o título dado pela historiadora mantém o termo lepra, mais antigo e com tradução direta em vários idiomas, leprosy, lèpre, Lepra. Entre as doenças transmissíveis, a lepra, ou hanseníase – termos que utilizaremos indistintamente –, continua sendo, segundo a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS, 8 set. 2010), uma das principais causas de neuropatia periférica e incapacidade funcional no mundo. A doença faz parte da dramaturgia do sofrimento humano desde a Antiguidade, mas sua identidade etiológica remonta ao final do século XIX, quando o médico norueguês Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, ao analisar material de lesões cutâneas, descobriu o Bacillus leprae, causador da doença (Castro Santos, Faria, Menezes, 2008). Nas últimas décadas do século XIX, surgiu, nos meios científicos, um grande interesse na enfermidade. No Brasil, a história da saúde pública no controle da hanseníase demonstra A hanseníase e sua história no Brasil: a história de um “flagelo nacional” Hanseniasis and its history in Brazil: the history of a “national scourge”

In search of a sanitary village: tuberculosis, health, and culture in Argentina since the late nineteenth century

os embates da populacao com a enfermidade; as metaforas em tornodos temas emergentes sobre saude e doenca; a literatura ficcional daepoca; os discursos medicos, higienistas, pedagogicos, politicos eurbanistas; as politicas de saude postas em acao. A obra e resultadode anos de pesquisa de doutorado na Universidade da California,em Berkeley, sob orientacao do historiador portenho Tulio HalperinDongui. Nao se trata de tese de doutorado que mais tarde sim-plesmente ‘virou livro’, mas sim de texto amadurecido pela trajetoriade trabalho de um intelectual e forjada pelo tempo. Armus sugere,desde logo, que teria abandonado o projeto inicial de produzira ‘historia total’ da tuberculose em Buenos Aires para dedicar-se aproduto modesto,

Contrapuntos de la historia de la enfermedad de Hansen en Brasil: escenarios de estigma y confinamiento

As the fight against leprosy in Brazil, particularly in the state of Maranhao, is singled out for analysis, this paper discusses the different medical and ‘profane’ conceptions of the disease, in addition to the proposals of public health intervention, always challenged by rival doctrines or convictions about contagion, diffusion, and treatment. The changing epidemiological, medical (i.e., the practices of isolation), social, and cultural views (particularly the stigma associated with the notions of sin, purity and danger) will help the search for singularities in Maranhao, the state’s main ‘sanitarians’, political actors, and institutions, as well as for common historical elements, among Brazilian and other populations experiencing the disease.

Counterpoints in the history of Hansen's disease in Brazil: situations of stigma and seclusion

As the fight against leprosy in Brazil, particularly in the state of Maranhao, is singled out for analysis, this paper discusses the different medical and ‘profane’ conceptions of the disease, in addition to the proposals of public health intervention, always challenged by rival doctrines or convictions about contagion, diffusion, and treatment. The changing epidemiological, medical (i.e., the practices of isolation), social, and cultural views (particularly the stigma associated with the notions of sin, purity and danger) will help the search for singularities in Maranhao, the state’s main ‘sanitarians’, political actors, and institutions, as well as for common historical elements, among Brazilian and other populations experiencing the disease.