title: [The origin of modern pediatric nursing].
abstract: The object of study of this investigations in the knowledge in pediatrics nursing from the institutionalization of the modern nursing beginning from the XIX Century. The knowledge in this study is considered as an instrument from which man apprehends his working object. From an historical perspective nursing is seen as a social articulated practice, as part of a collective process of works, whose purposes are: the control of the disease in the society, based on collective level and the recuperation of the individual working strength. Through the bibliography, we try to identify the characteristics of children's nursing assistance in England, during the XIX Century and the simultaneous movements of the medicinal practice: the social medicine, the clinic medical practice and puericulture. Followed the characteristics of the children's assistance in the United States in the beginning of the century and the theoretical reference in which it is located.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Almeida
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000266:history*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Origem da enfermagem pediátra moderna.