Nordestinas and normalistas: A study on the sociocultural characteristics of the students of a Catholic nursing school in Brazil (1940-1960)
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze how the Brazilian Catholic Church has developed a work in the nursing field throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In Brazil, there were 26 nursing schools in the late 1950s. There were 11 Catholic schools, representing 42% from the total, so there were no doubt about the Catholic influence in the nursing field. Therefore, this paper intends to answer the following question: who were the Brazilian Catholic nurses who graduated between the 1940s and 1960s? We intend to answer the question by presenting the results of a prosopography (collective biography) study. It was done on the basis of a group of 408 students from the Luiza de Marillac Nursing Scholl (EELM). It analyzed socioeconomic information on the students and the school curriculum. It’s important to explain that EELM was the first Catholic nursing school in Brazil, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1939 by the São Vicente de Paulo Association (ASVP). The ASVP was a traditional Catholic female congregation in the field of medical care and school education run by nuns of the Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, Servants of the Poor.
Keywords: nursing history, Catholicism, female professionalization, nursing school.
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