Abstract

BERTUCCI-MARTINS, Liane Maria. Educating memory. Epidemic from late XIX and early XX century. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2005, n.25, pp.75-89. ISSN 0104-4060.

This article focuses how authorities and many inhabitants of Campinas (SP) received news about spanish flu in 1918, and how they brought back the yellow fever that attacked the locality in 1889, and their organization to combat the epidemic influenza. This work intends to analyze how memories of yellow fever were present in actions and reactions of those inhabitants, since the very first news about Spanish flu, those that motivated attitudes and educated a population still  frightened with memories of epidemic sickness consequences.

Keywords : Memory; Education; Spanish Flu; Yellow Fever; Epidemic.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )