O modelo militar no ensino de Enfermagem: um olhar histórico sob a perspectiva foucaultiana

Formação em Enfermagem na Cruz Vermelha Brasileira na década de 1940: uma abordagem Foucaultiana*

“…However, in the 1920s and 1930s, that school decreased its activities as a training center, resuming them with dedication in 1940. The representation of nursing in 1914 and 1940 is explained by the coincidence of those periods and the beginning of the World Wars, because that school is based on training nursing professionals to meet an specific demand of a certain historical context (2,8) .…”

“…"Truth" may take the form of science, scientif model or enunaciations produced in the institutions and control practices. In this case, the knowledge of EECVB-FESP produced processes of subjectivity with specific characteristics as a part of ethical discernment, to do or not to do something, to serve the motherland or not (2) . In 1942, when Brazil declared its participation in the war, the CVB magazine published several issues in simulating Brazilian women's voice towards President Getúlio Vargas.…”

“…The history of the profession is one of the disciplines included in the undergraduate curriculum and should be the guiding principle to discuss and foster the critical reflection of the nurse, as advocated by the Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais dos Cursos de Graduação em Enfermagem [Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Courses in Nursing]. In this sense, history becomes a tool for deconstructing myths and untruths constituted by the strife of interests of each age (2) . The aforementioned aspects corroborate earlier studies in the HN with a focus on human resources, particularly in light of the requirements imposed by the labor market since the beginning of the professionalization of this occupation.…”