From 'More Doctors' to the Covid-19 pandemic

Dual denialism in the Brazilian medical corporation's performance

Bibliographic Data

ID5334526
AuthorsHenrique Sant’anna Dias (0000-0003-3419-2496, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Luciana Dias De Lima (0000-0002-0640-8387, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Maria Stella De Castro Lobo (0000-0002-7627-3959, Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil)
Year2021
Volume45
Issuespe2
Pages92-106
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-11042021e207i
OpenAlexW4285327255
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This essay analyzes the dynamics of Brazilian medical practice's corporate action in the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to July 2021, from documents and institutional material of national medical entities, student organizations, groups of nationally reputed physicians, and journalistic articles and scientific literature publications on the subject. This period is marked by the politicization of the corporate agenda and the alignment with the denialist discourses of Jair Bolsonaro's administration. It is argued that this process stems from a previous politicization: the clash against the More Doctors Program from 2013, the year of its launch, to 2019, when the Government deactivated it. The two historical moments reveal the dual denialism of the medical corporation, emphasizing weaknesses, contradictions, and dilemmas of the profession's crossroads, which will require internal and social dialogues for a new consensus on corporate identity and the professional project of Medicine. Understanding the intertwining, disputes, and meanings of the dynamics and directions of the corporate action of Medicine allows identifying structural problems of political roots that prevent further advances in the consolidation of the Unified Health System

Action (physics) · Business · Consolidation (business) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Corporation · Government (linguistics) · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Accounting · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Public Health in Brazil

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