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<\/div>\nIntensive efforts to urbanize the city of Rio de Janeiro and civilize its inhabitants began in the nineteenth century and the press was considered one of the most important instruments in this process of civilization, publishing a wide variety of knowledge and novelties in its periodicals that suggested a new way for the population to live.<\/p>\n
In the article\u00a0On caring for the body: the press and hygiene in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro,\u00a0<\/a>Vinicius Cranek Gagliardo,\u00a0Researcher at the Center for Research in Assistive Technologies\/Herm\u00ednio Ometto Foundation, Professor at Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora Institute and Araras Secretary of Education,\u00a0examines the pedagogical discourse constructed during this period and recommendations related to bodily hygiene and care.<\/p>\n Women and men became the targets of a series of prescriptions in the press that described in detail how the people of the city should care for their body and health, after all, a healthy body was a prerequisite for shaping men and women suitable to contribute to the future of the Empire.<\/p>\n Countless everyday elements became the target of hygiene measures by the authorities and doctors who worked in the city. Various periodicals, some edited by physicians and surgeons, described ways of caring for the body that included \u201cdaily cleaning and grooming, which have such a strong influence on health\u201d.<\/p>\n Medical journals during the first half of the nineteenth century were nearly always published under the care of one of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s medical institutions, such as the Society of Medicine or later, the Imperial Academy of Medicine. These specialized institutions and periodicals came to regulate the behavior of the medical corps, establishing scientific norms for the production, dissemination, review, and validation of medical knowledge, especially about problems related to the public and private health of the inhabitants .<\/p>\n The press played a prominent role in efforts to bring Brazil into the world of \u201ccivilized nations,\u201d as it was given the mission to enlighten and instruct the people, spreading wisdom and technical, scientific, and artistic knowledge that would form the foundation of any nation\u2019s \u201cprogress.\u201d<\/p>\n The press published a series of these recommendations that, together with other agents and discourses, sought a profound change in the sensibilities of the inhabitants with regards to their bodies. It spread the idea that, through hygiene and caring for the body (which were responsible for protection against illness and vices), \u201cprogress\u201d could be made for the nation.<\/p>\n Promoting hygiene among the country\u2019s inhabitants became a social and moral concern, since Brazil\u2019s future depended on healthy bodies capable of building it. Journalists worked to publicize a number of methods developed to boost physical health such as regular bathing, dental cleaning and whitening, combating bad breath, hair and beard care, and adequate nutrition. For women, ways of enhancing beauty were also indicated, such as reddening lips, whitening skin, and perfuming the body.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gagliardo, V. C.. (2022). Do cuidado do corpo: imprensa e higiene no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista. Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade-manguinhos, 29 (Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2022 29(4)), 895\u2013913.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/S0104-59702022000400002<\/a><\/p>\n Medicina y cultura visual: la fotograf\u00eda en revistas cient\u00edficas en Argentina, 1890-1915<\/a>\u00a0El rol de la fotograf\u00eda en la producci\u00f3n de conocimiento experimental.<\/p>\n Travestis y transexuales en las revistas argentinas de medicina<\/a>\u00a0El art\u00edculo aborda los discursos del campo m\u00e9dico en torno a las iniciativas de modificaci\u00f3n corporal entre 1971 y 1982.<\/p>\n Eugenesia a trav\u00e9s de la revista Viva Cien A\u00f1os, Argentina, 1934-1947<\/a>\u00a0La publicaci\u00f3n Viva Cien A\u00f1os, publicada en Argentina hasta 1947, surgi\u00f3 como un emprendimiento editorial dirigido por un grupo de m\u00e9dicos con una reconocida trayectoria en \u00e1mbitos acad\u00e9micos y cient\u00edficos.<\/p>\n