To combat the “degeneration of the race”: educational discourse for the population in Minas Gerais’ public health law of 1927

  • Eliane Vianey de Carvalho Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Doutoranda em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
  • Laerthe de Moraes Abreu Junior Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. Professor Adjunto
Keywords: History of Education, Health and Education, Minas Gerais’ Public Health Regulation (1927), Biopolitics

Abstract

This paper addresses the biopolitical discourse of the legislation included in Minas Gerais’ Public Health Regulations in 1927, marked by educational resolutions for the population. This document sets out the rules and regulations on the functioning of public health service in the state, including what concerns the functioning of schools. The main goal of the regulation was to fight disease and act as prophylaxis. Thus was privileged the education of the population through sanitary and hygienic measures, advertisements, speeches and public lectures on the causes of disease and the means of prevention and prophylaxis. The legislators’ speech shows biopolitical propositions, which are actions for both the “well-being” and the “how to live” for the individuals and the population.

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Author Biographies

Eliane Vianey de Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Doutoranda em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Memória, História e Educação e do NEPSHE.
Endereço para correspondência:
Rua Ana Inácia do Nascimento, 140. Vila Jardim São José.
São João del-Rei, MG.
CEP: 36.309-556
E-mail: eliane.vianey@ig.com.br
Laerthe de Moraes Abreu Junior, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. Professor Adjunto

Doutor em Educação. Professor do Departamento de Ciencias da Educação Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. Membro do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Sócio-Históricas em Educação (NEPSHE).

Endereço para correspondência:

Praça Dom Helvécio, 74

Fábricas

São João del-Rei, MG

CEP: 36.301-160

E-mail: laerthejr@yahoo.com.br

Published
2015-01-01
How to Cite
Carvalho, E. V. de, & Abreu Junior, L. de M. (2015). To combat the “degeneration of the race”: educational discourse for the population in Minas Gerais’ public health law of 1927. Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 15(1[37]), 143-169. Retrieved from https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38913
Section
Original research