Abstract

AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS, Ricardo. The Hygiene Education Project of Belisário Penna: 1900-1930. Dynamis [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.1, pp.45-68. ISSN 2340-7948.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-95362012000100003.

This paper aims to present and analyze the hygiene education project of Belisario Penna (1868-1939). This physician took part in the public health movement that sought, through reforms in public health policy and education, to change the conditions that made Brazil a country of the poor, sick and illiterate. We describe the main ideas expressed by Penna in the period between 1900 and 1930. For this purpose, we use his archive as a privileged source of this physician, one of the leading intellectuals of the time.

Keywords : Eugenics; education; sanitarian movement; hygiene; intellectuals.

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