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. 2020 Jan-Mar;27(1):93-113.
doi: 10.1590/S0104-59702020000100006.

[The "fight against death:" bodies, Brazilian modernity, and a history of old age, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1930s]

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[The "fight against death:" bodies, Brazilian modernity, and a history of old age, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1930s]

[Article in Portuguese]
Edivaldo Gois Jr. Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2020 Jan-Mar.
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Abstract

The way old age was depicted during the 1930s, in Brazilian modernity, is investigated. A historical study was conducted using as its sources newspapers and magazines published in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as medical periodicals. It showed that the particularities and contradictions of Brazilian modernity contributed to a variety of representations of old age. The analysis of the documentary corpus failed to reveal a homogenous description of old age, but identified a considerable increase in the power of scientific and medical knowledge about behaviors considered adequate with regard to bodies in the 1930s.

O estudo investiga como a velhice era representada em uma modernidade brasileira na década de 1930. Foi realizada uma pesquisa histórica que teve como fontes periódicos médicos e, principalmente, jornais e revistas das cidades de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro. A pesquisa demonstrou que as particularidades e contradições de uma modernidade brasileira contribuíram para uma variedade de representações da velhice. A análise do corpo documental impediu uma descrição homogênea da velhice, mas atestou considerável aumento do poder dos saberes científico e médico sobre os comportamentos considerados adequados em relação aos corpos na década de 1930.

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