The current models for health care hold at their core a pathologization of fat bodies informed by discriminatory methods and ideologies leading to an explicit lack of quality medical care for those who fail to meet normative standards of health and size. This project is interested in examining alternative public health models that provide interventions into those systems. Specifically, this work will seek to understand how the grassroots movement, Health at Every Size (HAES), serves to interrupt current limited understandings of health and weight. HAES individualized, weight-neutral approach to health and wellness exists in seeming opposition to contemporary ideas around healthcare practices. In studying this alternative model, conventional ideas of health care towards fat patients will be understood to be informed primarily by discriminatory structural and ideological practices. In addition, by highlighting the healthcare industries’ investment in the medical industrial complex, this project aims to deconstruct and critique notions of health while increasing access to care that is informed by the realities of bodily difference. In addition, this thesis will argue for zines as important health information dissemination tools by first mapping and complicating its history, expanding on zines as an artistic and politicized medium, and finally emphasizing its capacity to communicate through alternative knowledges and distribution networks.

O atual modelo de atenção à saúde do Brasil tem suas origens no modelo biomédico flexneriano, idealizado e implantado nos Estados Unidos por meio da ação combinada do corporativismo médico local e do grande capital. Sua importação e implantação se insere nas relações gerais de dependência econômica e subordinação política do nosso País aos interesses norte-americanos, desde as últimas décadas do século XIX até as primeiras décadas do século XX. O objetivo desta tese é identificar e analisar como as grandes fundações norte-americanas, financiadoras do modelo de atenção médica originado a partir da publicação do Relatório Flexner em 1910, mais os interesses capitalistas, tanto do grande capital internacional quanto nacionais, e o corporativismo médico brasileiro, construíram o modelo de atenção médico-hospitalar no Brasil e o moldaram à sua conveniência, de sorte a torná-lo hegemônico, preparando o terreno para a implantação da fase seguinte, a do complexo médico-industrial. Para tanto, apropriando-se do discurso dominante da ciência, deverão introduzir-se no Estado ou com ele manter estreito relacionamento, de forma a controlá-lo ou dirigí-lo ainda que parcialmente, privilegiando seus interesses, enquanto vestidos de um discurso que se pretende assistencialista, promovendo a expansão da base de assistência médica individual para cristalizar um padrão hospitalocêntrico e crescentemente tecnificado / The current model of health care assistance in Brazil stems from the biomedical Flexneriam medicine model once imagined and implemented in the United States through the combined action of the local medical corporativism and corporate class, mediated by the great philanthropies, and ultimately exported in the wake of financial capitalist expansionism, resulting in the Brazilian economical and political subordination to American interests between the late XIX and mid XX centuries. The main theme of this dissertation is to analyze how the great American philanthropic foundations, who financed the medical reform after the Flexner Report was published in 1910, combined their interests with the corporate class ones, both international and local, and, adding the support of the local medical corporativism, conformed the Brazilian health care model to its convenience, just preparing the ground for the introduction of the next phase, i.e., the medical-industrial complex. In order to succeed, and under the banner of the medical science, they either penetrated the structure of the State or maintained with it a close relationship, in order to control or at least partially steer it, always meaning its own interests while maintaining a betterment discourse, but promoting individual medical care in order to foster a hospital and technology centered pattern

O atual modelo de atenção à saúde do Brasil tem suas origens no modelo biomédico flexneriano, idealizado e implantado nos Estados Unidos por meio da ação combinada do corporativismo médico local e do grande capital. Sua importação e implantação se insere nas relações gerais de dependência econômica e subordinação política do nosso País aos interesses norte-americanos, desde as últimas décadas do século XIX até as primeiras décadas do século XX. O objetivo desta tese é identificar e analisar como as grandes fundações norte-americanas, financiadoras do modelo de atenção médica originado a partir da publicação do Relatório Flexner em 1910, mais os interesses capitalistas, tanto do grande capital internacional quanto nacionais, e o corporativismo médico brasileiro, construíram o modelo de atenção médico-hospitalar no Brasil e o moldaram à sua conveniência, de sorte a torná-lo hegemônico, preparando o terreno para a implantação da fase seguinte, a do complexo médico-industrial. Para tanto, apropriando-se do discurso dominante da ciência, deverão introduzir-se no Estado ou com ele manter estreito relacionamento, de forma a controlá-lo ou dirigí-lo ainda que parcialmente, privilegiando seus interesses, enquanto vestidos de um discurso que se pretende assistencialista, promovendo a expansão da base de assistência médica individual para cristalizar um padrão hospitalocêntrico e crescentemente tecnificado / The current model of health care assistance in Brazil stems from the biomedical Flexneriam medicine model once imagined and implemented in the United States through the combined action of the local medical corporativism and corporate class, mediated by the great philanthropies, and ultimately exported in the wake of financial capitalist expansionism, resulting in the Brazilian economical and political subordination to American interests between the late XIX and mid XX centuries. The main theme of this dissertation is to analyze how the great American philanthropic foundations, who financed the medical reform after the Flexner Report was published in 1910, combined their interests with the corporate class ones, both international and local, and, adding the support of the local medical corporativism, conformed the Brazilian health care model to its convenience, just preparing the ground for the introduction of the next phase, i.e., the medical-industrial complex. In order to succeed, and under the banner of the medical science, they either penetrated the structure of the State or maintained with it a close relationship, in order to control or at least partially steer it, always meaning its own interests while maintaining a betterment discourse, but promoting individual medical care in order to foster a hospital and technology centered pattern

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