Raça e saúde: o discurso médico no diagnóstico da população negra

Abstract

The research analyzes the medical discourse with racial bias, in order to investigate the medical racialist discourse, in the bodies of the Afro-Brazilian population and the use of theories in their diagnoses. The time frame comprises the years 1889 to 1930, for further understanding of racial theories and how they were shaped in the Republican Brazilian socity, as well as understanding the perception of public health, whether through medical academies or health campaigns. The study will be divided into three chapters, the first one turns to presentation, as well as the identification of racial theories and their multiplicity of discourses, reaching not only doctors, but other intellectuals, until reaching other social layers. In turn, chapter two will be the historicization of the History of Medicine, from the emergence of the first faculties in Brazil to a look at the History of Pernambuco Medicine, with a bias to a regional history. Finally, we analyzed different sources to contextualize the medical diagnoses in black bodies and how these prognoses pointed to racial theories.