[American participation in the creation of a nurse model in Brazilian society in the 1920's].

The objectives of this historical-social study are: to describe the circumstances that determined the participation of North American nurses in the formation of the Brazilian nurse; and analyse the process of implementing institutional rituals as a strategy of symbolic fight, to confer visibility to the nurse profession and discuss the symbolic effects of institutional rituals for the consecration of a nurse model for Brazilian society at the time. The primary sources are constituted of pertaining written and photographic documents relative to the studied theme. By reading the documentary corpus an analysis was made of the symbols that had distinguished and established the hierarchies of the actions, as well as the strategies undertaken for the North American nurses, towards implementing a new model of nurses in Brazilian society, coherent with the model of the North American schools of nursing.

The nurses of the Brazilian expeditionary force and the dissemination of their return home.

This historical-social study aimed to examine the symbolic elements that express the hierarchizing division between the male and female, contained in newspaper reports published about the return home of the nurses who worked in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Health Service, and to discuss the symbolic effects these reports produced. The historical sources of the study, consisting of photographic, written and oral documents, were classified and analyzed in the light of Pierre Bourdieu's Social Theory and Michelle Perrot's studies on Women's History. The research revealed that the way the news reports about the arrival of these nurses to Brazil were disseminated represented the reproduction of a symbolic strategy to enforce political and social interests in force, and that contained the ideas about the hierarchizing division of the social world into male and female.

[Connections among nursing, nutrition and social work, pioneering female careers in the healthcare area].

This is a historical-social research about the emergence of the nutrition and social work professions between the 1930's and the mid 20th century. This study analyzes the circumstances involved in the beginning of both courses, nutrition and social work, at Anna Nery School/FURJ and compares the work developed by nurses, nutritionists, and social workers at the time. The primary research sources are found at School of Nursing Anna Nery Archives Center/FURJ and among other documents they include written documents and oral speeches.

[A major game in the re-organization of the Professional Nursing School].

This is a historical-social description study supported on the thought of Pierre Bourdieu based on documental analysis. It describes the sanitarists and psychiatrists' actions from the reformulation of Education and Public Health Ministry into Education and Health Ministry in the beginning of New State and analyse the fight's strategies of the main agents to take advantage on their proposals of Professional Nursing School's reorganization. The fight's strategies that psychiatrists, sanitarists and certificated nurses had used to stake their projects, characterized a difficult battle inserted in a hard major game.

[Superior nursing in Brazil and associative life].

This historical-critical study discusses the interrelations between the Brazilian Nursing Association and the baccalaureate nursing courses in the Brazilian society. The insertion of nursing in Brazilian university began in the late 1930's. Such a movement was favored by the federal policy of higher education in the mid-twentieth century and it was accomplished by the University Reform of 1968.

[The head nurses as figure-type in the middle of the XX century].

Unlabelled: Social-historical study about the actuation of the head nurse in the hospitals, in the middle of the XX century.

Objectives: describe the meaning of the matter published in the Revista Anais de Enfermagem ("Annals of Nursing Journal") about the head nurse; analyze the instructors actuation of the Anna Nery School (EAN) in the stage fields and compare the minutes registrations of the meetings about this actuation with the content selected in the cited Journal. Patrimony: Center of Documentation, Library of Post-Graduation and Nuphebras, all of the EEAN.

[The movement for reassessing education and research in nursing history].

The thematic focus of this work is a call for reconsidering Education and Research on Nursing History (NH). Such movement is deemed a late manifestation in a process of improvement in Nursing knowledge, mediated by the development of stricto sensu Postgraduate programs, by the end of the 20th century, when a wakening of the Nursing area was seen due to a need to search for balance between technical and scientific competence and the ability for social criticism and professional self-assessment. An analysis of the possibilities and limitations of education and research in NH is presented, as well as its contribution to the advancement of the profession, and implications from understanding NH as an interdisciplinary field are discussed.

[(Re)configuration of the nursing field in the new state (1937-1945)].

Unlabelled: The subject of this study is the changes the nursing field went through during the period called Novo Estado.

Objectives: Analyze the nursing environment in the Federal Capital during the period mentioned; discuss the effects of the influence of the Catholic Church and nurses of the American government in the Brazilian nursing environment.

Sources: Documents obtained from the Documentation Center in Anna Nery/UFRJ School of Nursing and from literature on the topic.

[Haydée Guanais Dourado: charisma and personality to the service of an ideal].

This is a descriptive-social study which looks at the performance of Haydée Guanais Dourado (HGD) in the Brazilian nursing scene, in the mid-20's. The objectives are to describe her personal and professional profile; analyze her participation in ABEn (Brazilian Association of Nursing) and discuss the relationship between her attributes and her contribution to the development of nursing in Brazil. The sources used consisted of Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem-REBEn (Brazilian Journal of Nursing), written documents and oral reports obtained from the Documentation Center of Anna Nery Nursing School in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.