O DISCURSO HIGIENISTA DEFININDO A CIDADE the hygienist discourse defining the citie

Abstract

Throughout the nineteenth century, the medical theories concerning neohipocraticas lesmaladies located in the natural environment and artificial, have influenced standards of behavior and organization of cities. The treaties of public health, who guided the legislation and administrative practices have led to the medicalization of space and society. The Medical Topography , surveys on the physical, social , economic and cultural characteristics of places , found that urban concentrations agisent of the most unhealthy environments , conflict and disorder. Culturalist and progressive planners, influenced by the medical and social discourse , develop projects utopian cities of healthy cities and “fair” , which became a reference for the reformers of the nineteenth century. Another evidence is that epidemics do not take into account political boundaries and social classes , prompting the organization of international conferences on sanitation and facing the protetion of the individual against the disease, and the assurance of freedom of international trade.