Do trabalho de parto à construção do hospital: as atividades da parteira Joana Maria de Lima, na cidade de São José da Tapera - Alagoas (1960-1995)

Abstract

It is noteworthy that before the existence of public or private hospitals with maternity wards in various cities in the State of Alagoas, the labors were performed by midwives. In the city of São José da Tapera this was no different, because, before the creation of the hospital mixed unit Ernie Ricardo Gomes on 30 December 1974, the births were performed by the midwife Joan Maria de Lima, in the Decade of 1960. This type of work of home childbirth performed by this midwife, however, gradually being left out at the end of the 20th century, When there was a turnaround in public health policies that regulate the work of births in hospitals. This work, therefore, sought to analyze how was the work of delivery/home in São José da Tapera/Alagoas, and how these jobs no longer exist. For this, we made use of some discussions of English social history, as well as some discussion about the use of Biography in historical research. We also made use of some discussions on the use of oral and source memory in historical research, because we use some oral sources in this work.