Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
This article presents results from an ethnography of documents, whose research object was the professionalization of nursing in Brazil. Based on primary documents, dated between 1925 and 1931, the objective was to analyze and discuss the ways in which the discourses constructed about the new profession and the new professional were sustained with an important influence from the eugenics movement. These speeches constituted structural violence, produced from a whitened place of power, which sought to build the socially accepted image of a profession that had broken with its colonial links of care, practiced in the country mostly by black women. From an anthropological and intersectional perspective, we sought to contribute to counter-narratives capable of questioning the hegemony that permeates the construction of the profession in the country.
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