Configuração da enfermagem alagoana durante a Gripe Hespanhola (1918-1919)

Abstract

This is a qualitative, documentary study of a historical-social nature, whose object was the configuration of Alagoas nursing during the Spanish Flu (1918-1919), aiming to analyze the configuration of Alagoas nursing during the Spanish Flu (1918-1919). The geographic scenario is part of Alagoas with a time frame from 1918 to 1919. The documentary corpus is composed of direct and indirect sources. Direct sources: sources that have a direct relationship with the object of study. Indirect sources: informative, documentary or witness elements that may be, for example, placed between the historian and the first account. The search for the sources followed two ways of investigation, online and face-to-face, generally going through the following steps: Search for sources; application of inclusion criteria and exclusion; storage and organization of sources; data analysis in the light of the relevant literature and study production. The analysis was performed in line with the historical method, triangulating a discussion between the direct, indirect sources and the theoretical framework adopted, that is, the thought of Michelle Perrot. The sources show the existence and action of nurses in the care of the population affected by the epidemic, with emphasis on the wards in emergency schools installed in school institutions in the city of Maceió, capital of the state. On the profile of nursing, the hegemony of women was evident, with different salaries according to the position and place of action. It was identified the occurrence of inversion and accumulation of position in the practice of nursing work, as well as the occupation of spaces of power within the cycle of action of the nursing itself, centered on the figure of man, translated into the function of "ward administrator". The passage of the Spanish flu through Alagoas was marked by major events in the socioeconomic and political context and, with special emphasis, in Public Health.