Keywords
hygienic education
health campaigns
sanitarians
social workers
nationalism
propaganda
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Abstract
Through the cinematographic representation of the rural teacher, the social worker and the malaria sprayer man, whom I called sanitarians intermediaries, the recreation of the malaria eradication campaign of 1957 and tuberculosis prevention campaign of 1960, this article analyze in four époque films the presence of a visual and oral discourse full of nationalistic symbols that overdo the Mexican state labor in public health activities. I confirm that Mexican health films of the ending fifties used as education health tools, functioned as mass media propaganda for health authorities in order to create an image of a Modern and healthy Mexico.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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