Living through Health Projects: health education’s practices in Brazil

Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the health education’s practices in Brazil taking as object its historical emergence as sanitary education in the 1920s, and its latest developments. The Michel Foucault’s concepts of discursive practices, and biopolitic guided this analysis. The discussion began with the emergence of sanitary education in Brazil in the 1920s and their practices until the 1960s when there is a terminological shift to health education. Finally, were approached some contemporary developments of health education practices and their biopolitical traces in a context marked by strategies for reorienting the health care model in the country.

摘要：本研究旨在剖析巴西的健康教育实践，以其20世纪20年代作为卫生教育（sanitary education）的历史起源与最新发展脉络作为研究对象。本分析以米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）的话语实践（discursive practices）与生命政治（biopolitics）概念为指导框架。论述首先追溯巴西20世纪20年代卫生教育的诞生及其实践演进，直至20世纪60年代该领域出现术语转向，更名为健康教育。最后，本研究结合巴西国内医疗保健模式转型的战略语境，探讨了健康教育实践的当代发展及其所蕴含的生命政治印记。