THE HYGIENIST MOVEMENT AS A PUBLIC POLICY: HISTORICAL AND CURRENT ASPECTS OF SCHOOL MEDICALIZATION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article discusses the medicalization on the school, which is present in the contemporary world and have a relationship with the hygienist movement implanted as public policy in the early twentieth century, as well as the participation of pharmaceutical laboratories in the growing increase in the use of psychotropic drugs in childhood. The union between health and education produces a biological vision that stigmatizes and individualises those who present difficulties in the school environment. Thus, this work aims to discuss the process of pathologization and medicalization of childhood and its implications in the field of public policies in the light of Genealogical Theory of Michel Foucault, who through Biopolitics makes a critique allusive to the school for this tendency to disrespect the subjectivities with police conducts in defense of a society that disregards interpersonal relations and positions itself as a regulatory apparatus.