Public health prevention programs and the institutionalization of Social Work en el Neobatillista Uruguay: a genealogical analysis

Authors

  • Elizabeth Ortega UDELAR - Montevideo - Uruguay
  • Myriam R. Mitjavila UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Abstract

This article conducts a review of the institutionalization of Social Work as a profession in Uruguay from 1940-1960. Using a genealogical perspective it analyses the relations and articulations that were established in Uruguay after World War II among the social historic trajectories, the transformations in the etiological models that organize knowledge in the field of public health. The paper also looks at the new institutionality which, under the influence of a Pan American strategy led by the United States, allowed for the installation of new instruments of power (in the Foucaultian sense) that included the redefinition of a number of professional fields, including Social Work.

Author Biographies

Elizabeth Ortega, UDELAR - Montevideo - Uruguay

Candidata a Doctora en Trabajo Social - Universidaded de la República Oriental del Uruguay/UDELAR. Profesora Asistente del Dep. de Trabajo Social - FCS/UDELAR.

Myriam R. Mitjavila, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Possui graduação em Serviço Social pela PUCRGS (1979), graduação em Sociología del Desarrollo pelo Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (1982) e doutorado em Sociologia pela USP (1999). Atualmente é Professor Adjunto e Coordenadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da UFSC, experto - Programa Alban, professor participante da USP, professor participante - Universidad Nacional de La Matanza e colaboradora do Doutorado em Ciências Sociais da Universidad de la República - Uruguai. Tem experiência na área de Sociologia, com ênfase em Sociologia Médica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: risco, sociologia da saúde, biopolítica.

Mais informações: Currículo Lattes - CNPq.

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Published

2005-01-01

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2005): Serviço Social: contribuições analíticas sobre o exercício profissional

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