%0 Journal Article
%T Political action and social thought in Josue de Castro
%A Maria Let¨ªcia Galluzzi Bizzo
%J Boletim do Museu Paraense Em¨ªlio Goeldi. Ci¨ºncias Humanas
%D 2009
%I Museu Paraense Em¨ªlio Goeldi
%X The paper analyses central points of the social thought and political action of physician Josu¨¦ de Castro (1908-1973) between1930 and 1950 decades. It aims to problematize social-cognitive categories present in the construction of his idea of ¡®hunger¡¯, aswell as convergences with other thought sets. Analysis of four Castro¡¯s publications has been conducted, as well as an analysis ofmaterials published by peer authors, which were supplemented by historiographical reviewing, and examination of key-elementsof his career as a deputy and founder of hunger-fighting institutions. Castro¡¯s scientific-political-intellectual career has been centered in the idea of ¡®hunger¡¯ as a bio-social phenomenon that identifies the Brazilian condition, is the source of the Brazilian defects, hampers the nationality, and requires modernizing economic-social reforms. Categories detectable in the field of the Brazilian social thought are also present: semi-feudal colonialist latifundiary monoculture, irrational State, and supremacy of the public over the private. Among the ideas in common with international nutrition science, the bio-social concern with public feeding is present. Castro¡¯s scientific-intellectual production becomes possible particularly because of the Sate-construction scenery, and is characterized by his relationships with institutions, governing authorities and international organisms. His political and social commitment materializes itself through his scientific ideas, making hunger visible as a scientific-political issue.
%K Josue de Castro
%K Brazilian social thought
%K Hunger
%K Health and society
%K Nutrition
%K History of nutrition
%U http://www.museu-goeldi.br/editora/bh/artigos/chv4n3_2009/acao(bizzo).pdf