SOCIAL AND RACIAL ORIGIN AND THE FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL NURSES IN BRAZIL (1930-1960)
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The article resumes the discussion about the configuration of the nursing profession in Brazilian society focusing on the institutional mechanisms that have given the profession a characteristic social and racial composition. Specifically, it intends to analyze the effects of the adoption of institutional mechanisms of selection based on social origin, gender, type of schooling and race on the social composition of the profession. One of the effects of the adoption of exclusionary policies to select candidates for admission to nursing schools was the production of a chronic shortage of professionals. The prior definition of a desired social and racial profile for the nurse made the professionalization project virtually unfeasible, especially when the social role proposed for the professionals would be to act as protagonists in the public health system and hospital care in implantation in the parents.
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