SERTÃO'S “DOCTORS”: SPEECHES OF THE III MEDICAL CONGRESS OF CENTRAL BRAZIL (1951)

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the relations between region and nation fron the speeches given at the III Congresso f Central Brasil and V of the Triângulo Mineiro under the concept o the sertão as a space to be civilized even in the 20th century. The statements were published in what was coalled “Public Health Archives” and it is possible to perceive the meanings attributed to the concepts of health and disease in these states that felt in constant opposition to the coast. The reflection that is established is based on investigating how, based on this relationship, the identity of the doctor and the concepts of health and illness with a view of the hinterland are constructed in the congresso narratives, understood in this way by the participants of the event in Goiânia. In this sense, the reflections still permeate the concept of frontier, here not necessarily geographical, but constitued from the narratives that led to the ideia of opposition beteween the hinterland and the coast, which can also be understood in this time space with region and nation.