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Mobilidades Turísticas e Saúde Pública Análise Histórica a partir de uma Perspectiva Brasileira

2023; UNIVERSIDADE DE CAXIAS DO SUL; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18226/21789061.v15i2p391

ISSN

2178-9061

Autores

Thiago Allis, Vera Borges, Alessandra Xavier Bueno, Vânia Ramos Sela da Silva,

Tópico(s)

History of Medicine and Tropical Health

Resumo

This paper aims at discussing tourism and public health from a mobilities perspective. We analyze tourism not just as corporeal movement, but as a socio-spatial phenomenon that combines material and immaterial elements. For the purposes of this analysis, we take a historical approach on disease outbreaks in Brazil by reviewing press coverage on the poliomyelitis epidemic in the context of political, social, cultural, and economic transformations of the 1950s, with particular interest in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Though this disease did not influence tourism directly – which, in fact, was very incipient in the country at that time – this analysis highlights early travel and tourism imaginaries in relation to public health protocols and concerns. As a main contribution, this study explores different dimensions of (im)mobilities (from pathogens to tourists, from idyllic images to sick bodies), which have the potential to grasp tourism in a more relational way in the so-called post-Covid19 pandemic world.

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