[The visibility of the care given by a Brazilian Army nurse to a wounded soldier during World War II].
A historical-sociological study aimed at analyzing and describing the visibility of the performance of a Brazilian Army nurse engaged in the Força Expedicionária Brasileira--FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) during the Second World War. Primary source: a photograph taken at the time, along with the oral testimony of nineteen agents. This mode of gathering data resulted in the creation of a new method of research, which we named Oral-Photographic Analysis. The photo was picked in the Brazilian Army's iconographic collection, located at the Comando Militar do Leste (Eastern Military Command), in Rio de Janeiro. Secondary sources: literature on the sociohistorical context of the period. We used Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, power and cultural capital. The results showed that, in order to face such challenge and care for the wounded, the volunteer nurses had to acquire new habitus through mandatory training given by the military.
Bernardes
Margarida Maria Rocha
MM
Serviços de Saúde e Mestre pela Faculdade de Enfermagem da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. margabe@globo.com
Lopes
Gertrudes Teixeira
GT
Santos
Tânia Cristina Franco
TC
D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000266:history*; D010781:Photography; D014857:Warfare; D047789:World War II