{"id":11939,"date":"2020-08-25T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:39:33","slug":"talking-about-hygiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/talking-about-hygiene\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about hygiene"},"content":{"rendered":"

August, 25, 2020<\/p>\n

In current thinking, hygiene is synonymous with cleanliness. However, this was not always the case. Today, the terms hygienism and hygienist are often used dismissively, since hygiene came to mean a centralized and authoritarian intervention, with the State wielding social control over individuals.<\/p>\n

The article\u00a0Hygiene as individual practice and as an instrument of the State<\/a>, written by researcher Rafael Mantovani and Maria Cristina da Costa\u00a0Marques, of\u00a0Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>,\u00a0 published in the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos\u00a0\u00a0(vol.27\u00a0no.2 Apr.\/June\u00a02020) outlines some understandings of the word “hygiene”.<\/p>\n

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Hygeia, Goddess of Health. Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1615. Detroit Instititute of Arts<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The historical research shows that what was defended as hygiene and public hygiene practices varied greatly according to the thinking of that time and local political aspirations. They ranged from understanding hygiene as a careful diet and temperance\u00a0 to the need to alleviate the effects of poverty\u00a0 and even cleanliness.<\/p>\n

The notion evolved from an individual method for organizing daily life and prolonging the lifespan to serve as a concept for actions the State could take to govern society as a biological entity. This concept acquired scientific legitimacy at the turn of the nineteenth century and circulated widely among the European states, spreading an ideal of \u201chygienic\u201d behavior that was legitimized by various treatises on public hygiene.<\/p>\n

See\u00a0our latest issue:<\/p>\n

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See articles related to hygiene and\u00a0Hygienism in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n

Mantovani, Rafael and Marques, Maria Cristina da Costa. Hygiene as individual practice and as an instrument of the State<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Jun 2020, vol.27, no.2.<\/p>\n

Alvarez, Adriana.\u00a0Resignificando los conceptos de la higiene:\u00a0el surgimiento de una autoridad sanitaria en el Buenos Aires de los a\u00f1os 80<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Oct 1999, vol.6, no.2, p.293-314.<\/p>\n

Ferrandis, Xavier Garc\u00eda and Mart\u00ednez-Vidal, \u00c0lvar. Salud p\u00fablica, espacio urbano y exclusi\u00f3n social en la Espa\u00f1a de posguerra: la epidemia de tifus exantem\u00e1tico en la ciudad de Valencia, 1941-1943<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2019, vol.26, no.2.<\/p>\n

Aguirre-Bola\u00f1os, Nydia. La etapa posterior a la erradicaci\u00f3n de la viruela en M\u00e9xico, 1952-1977<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2018, vol.25, no.3.<\/p>\n

V\u00e1squez, Mar\u00eda Fernanda. Degeneraci\u00f3n y mejoramiento de la raza: \u00bfhigiene social o eugenesia? Colombia, 1920-1930<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Ago 2018, vol.25, suppl.1.<\/p>\n

Maya Gonz\u00e1lez, Jos\u00e9 Antonio. La higiene mental en el M\u00e9xico posrevolucionario: la psiquiatr\u00eda en el siglo XX<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2017, vol.24, suppl.1.<\/p>\n

Pascual, Cecilia M. La epidemia de c\u00f3lera como condensador de sentidos: culturas urbanas, narraciones cl\u00ednicas y pol\u00edticas higi\u00e9nicas en Rosario, Argentina, 1886-1887<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2017, vol.24, no.2<\/p>\n

Campos, Ricardo.\u00a0Autoritarismo y eugenesia punitiva: higiene racial y nacionalcatolicismo en el franquismo, 1936-1945<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Dic 2016, vol.23, suppl.1, p.131-148.<\/p>\n

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