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0179/2024 - Science, health and military dictatorship in Brazil: the Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE, Integrated Endemic Disease Program) of CNPq (1973-1987).
Ciência, saúde e ditadura militar no Brasil: o Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE) do CNPq (1973-1986).

Author:

• Simone Petraglia Kropf - Kropf, S. P. - <simonekropf@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9005-7160

Co-author(s):

• Nara Azevedo - Azevedo, N. - <narafiocruz@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9086-8134


Abstract:

The Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas, or PIDE (Integrated Endemic Disease Program), was established in 1973 by Brazil’s National Research Council, CNPq, with funds from the Brazilian Innovation Agency, FINEP. The program was intended to fi-nance research on diseases considered strategic to the economic development plans of the military regime (1964-1985). Recognized as a landmark program in the history of Brazilian parasitology, the PIDE was designed during a period when the dictatorship was both violently repressing scholars and investing heavily in science and technology (S&T). The article examines the context in which the program was implemented and analyzes what it meant for planners in the field of S&T and for the scientists who led it. It argues that the PIDE was an example of how the scientific community managed to use financial and institutional resources available under S&T policy in the 1970s to ad-vance research on parasitic diseases and innovate its agenda. This analysis contributes to recent historiography that, based on specific historical cases, reflects on the paradoxical nature of a regime that persecuted scientists while simultaneously supporting science as part of its authoritarian modernization project.

Keywords:

PIDE, CNPq, endemic parasitic diseases, military dictatorship, science

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Kropf, S. P., Azevedo, N.. Science, health and military dictatorship in Brazil: the Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE, Integrated Endemic Disease Program) of CNPq (1973-1987).. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/May). [Citado em 05/10/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/science-health-and-military-dictatorship-in-brazil-the-programa-integrado-de-doencas-endemicas-pide-integrated-endemic-disease-program-of-cnpq-19731987/19227?id=19227&id=19227



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