0179/2024 - Ciência, saúde e ditadura militar no Brasil: o Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE) do CNPq (1973-1986). Science, health and military dictatorship in Brazil: the Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE, Integrated Endemic Disease Program) of CNPq (1973-1987).
Este artigo analisa o Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas, criado em 1973 no Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (CNPq), com recursos da Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep), para financiar pesquisas sobre doenças consideradas estratégicas aos planos de desenvolvimento econômico do regime militar (1964-1985). O PIDE é reconhecido como marco na história da parasitologia brasileira. Sua formulação ocorreu em um período de violenta repressão da ditadura ao campo acadêmico e, ao mesmo tempo, de significativos investimentos governamentais em ciência e tecnologia. O artigo examina as circunstâncias de sua criação e implementação e analisa os sentidos que assumiu para os planejadores da área de C&T e para os cientistas que o coordenaram. Argumenta-se que o PIDE foi um exemplo de como a comunidade científica soube utilizar os recursos financeiros e institucionais da política científica e tecnológica da década de 1970 para fazer avançar a tradição de pesquisa em doenças parasitárias e inovar sua agenda. Pretende-se contribuir para a historiografia que vem refletindo, a partir de casos históricos específicos, sobre o caráter paradoxal de um regime que, em seu projeto de modernização autoritária, simultaneamente perseguiu cientistas e apoiou a ciência.
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
Science, health and military dictatorship in Brazil: the Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE, Integrated Endemic Disease Program) of CNPq (1973-1987).
Resumo (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.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
PIDE, CNPq, endemic parasitic diseases, military dictatorship, science
Kropf, S. P., Azevedo, N.. Ciência, saúde e ditadura militar no Brasil: o Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas (PIDE) do CNPq (1973-1986).. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/mai). [Citado em 29/12/2024].
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