Viva Mulher: constructing a cervical cancer control program in Brazil.

Through a number of isolated initiatives that began in the 1960s, Brazil accumulated knowledge and experience that in the late 1990s culminated in the implementation of the first nationwide public health action meant to coordinate health bodies and personnel from the federal, state, and municipal administrative levels to address a chronic degenerative disease. The main goal of this article is to analyze the process of construction of this public policy for cancer control in Brazil--more specifically, organized screening for the control of cervical cancer in the form of the Viva Mulher program. Our analytical approach relies on elements from the history of public policy and from the history of institutions, combining the use of documental sources, scientific literature, and interviews with managers involved in the process under study. Our analysis endeavors to show how and to what extent this national process incorporated the experiences of local projects and responded both to pressure from the social movement and to the country's political environment. It further shows how the new context, shaped by changes in the organization of the Brazilian health system, influenced this process.

Políticas públicas de controle de câncer no Brasil: elementos de uma trajetória / Public policies for cancer control in Brazil: elements of a trajectory

O artigo aborda a trajetória das políticas públicas para o controle do câncer no País entre os anos 1940 e o final dos anos 1980. Discute a criação do Serviço Nacional de Câncer, em 1942, seu perfil inicial e as questões que nortearam sua trajetória. Analisa as ações estatais contra a doença nos anos 1960 e a criação do Programa Nacional de Controle do Câncer, em 1974. A partir de uma perspectiva histórica, baseada na análise de documentos institucionais e de bibliografia especializada, buscou-se demonstrar a relação entre ampliação das políticas públicas nesta área, o desenvolvimento de uma nova comunidade médica ? os cancerologistas ? e as transformações sociopolíticas e econômicas ocorridas no País.

The article discusses the construction of public policies for cancer control in Brazil from the 1940s to the late 1980s. It examines the process that led to the creation of the National Cancer Service in 1942, the agency's initial paths and the issues that have guided its trajectory. It analyzes the state actions against the disease in the 1960s and the creation of the National Cancer Control Program, in 1974. From a historical perspective, based on analysis of institutional documents and relevant literature, the authors show the relation between the expansion of public policies in this area, the development of a new medical community ­ the oncologists ­ and sociopolitical and economic transformations in Brazil

Saneamiento, eugenesia y literatura: los caminos entrecruzados de Renato Kehl y Monteiro Lobato: 1914-1926 / Sanitation, eugenics and literature: the roads intercrossed of Renato Kehl and Monteiro Lobato: 1914-1926

Trata sobre la eugenesia en América Latina y las relaciones institucionales entre Brasil y otros países del continente.