A EPIDEMIA E VACINAÇÃO DA MENINGITE EM GUARAPUAVA E NO PARANÁ ( 1969-1975)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the meningitis epidemic and vaccination between the years 1969-1975, in Guarapuava and the State of Paraná, as can be seen, there was censorship by the military. To do this, it takes as a corpus the reports published in the period by the newspapers Folha do Oeste, Diário do Paraná and O Estado de S. Paulo. This dissertation aims to understand how the meningitis epidemic and vaccination were reported, considering that the disease occurred in one of the harshest phases of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, which prohibited the dissemination of information about the epidemic, which for many people , due to the lack of information, did not exist. Thus, the proposal of this dissertation is - adopting a Foucauldian perspective, anchored in the concepts of knowledge and power - to discursively analyze the management strategies used by the health authorities of Guarapuava and Paraná, comparing and dialoguing with the national data presented by the newspaper O Estado of S. Paulo, aiming to show the number of patients and deaths from meningitis, control of information, and at the same time mass vaccination of the population as a way of controlling the epidemic.