Vacina antivariólica: visões da Academia de Medicina no Brasil Imperial

Abstract

In Imperial Brazil, the Academy of Medicine played an important role in promoting debates and discussions about local medicine. It was a symbol of the movement to try to organize the Brazilian medical body and lend it legitimacy. The article focuses on issue surrounding the Academy's activities regarding the smallpox vaccine and its conceptions and practice, covering the period form the Academy's birth as the Rio de Janeiro Society of Medicine till its transformation into the National Academy of Medicine, when Brazil became a Republic at the close of the nineteenth century. The main source for this study were the Academy's periodicals, which portrayed Brazilian medical thought and practice throughout the nineteenth century and underscored the lack of research and the need for greater reading on the topic so local studies could be conducted. These publications were devoted to disseminating works that had already been published in other countries or to discussion raised by Brazilian physicians. The later at first targeted clinical and hospital cases and statistics and the later, starting in the 1880s, began to incorporate laboratory experiments.

Academia Brasileira de Enfermeiros: Locus profissional não consolidado

“…Nascida em 1829, pela iniciativa de alguns médicos que compunham a elite médica brasileira, a Academia Nacional de Medicina tem seus primórdios na Sociedade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, quando em 1835, um decreto imperial a transforma na Academia Imperial de Medicina (Fernandes, 2004).…”

“…Por outro lado, "[...] o sentimento de identificação do indivíduo com a organização atua como fonte simbólica de proteção, desencadeando processos emocionais, os quais tendem a contribuir para a criatividade do trabalho" (Machado, Kopittke, 2002, p.12), como foi observado por Coradini (1997) e Fernandes (2004), no processo de constituição da Academia Nacional de Medicina.…”