Sertão, medicina e modernização: Hermes de Paula e o olhar médico sobre a cidade de Montes Claros (1940-1950)

Abstract

This dissertation presents the analysis of the implications of medical discourse in Montes Claros-MG, in the north of Minas Gerais, through the work of the physician Hermes Augusto de Paula, from the 1940s to the 1950s. Linked to the research line Culture, Social Relations and Gender , has as its themes the hinterland, medicine and modernization in the city of Montes Claros. The analysis to be carried out in this research consists of a bibliographic research, using as the main source the work A Medicina dos Médicos e a Outra (1982), by the aforementioned doctor. Based on the changes that took place in the health area, which took on new guises after 1930, we intend to identify how medicine in the period, through the eyes of Hermes de Paula, went beyond the scope of health and how, associated with state actions, it influenced the understanding of the region and, in addition, to understand how the sertão was configured as a space of alterity in the face of the model of nation envisioned.