This project aspires to understand the tuberculosis sanatoria in Sweden from the perspective of their location in space and the interpretation of the characteristics of their landscapes. The study has sorted the areas of analysis in the following categories: [i] distribution, [ii] altitude, [iii] orientation, [iv] proximity to the sea, [v] proximity to lakes or rivers, [vi] proximity to train stations, [vii] proximity to forests, [viii] proximity to towns or hospitals, [ix] proximity to industries. The spatial analysis will rely on observation and on GIS technology. Two different software have been used, Qgis and ArcGis, but mainly the first due to its disposition as free software and therefore available for all and easily accessible. Thereafter, the results of these analyses have been interpreted in the light of hermeneutical philosophy, seeking the understanding of each of the parts before understanding the whole, and interpreting the spatial results in the light of the information about the anti-tuberculosis movement.                             Tuberculosis sanatoria cannot be interpreted without the support of medical theories existing during tuberculosis crisis' times. Sanatoria spatial interpretation is also executed under the premises of Corner’s essential points across any spatial analysis: [i] the primacy of perception and [ii] the role of tradition. Considering the primacy of perception, some of the buildings and their surroundings have been visited “in situ” or studied through photos and images. This supported the understanding of the spatial elements of the sanatoria. The weight of tradition existing in the sanatoria is strong. The sanatorium’s environment as an element of the treatment for the patient roots in the 19th century and its hygienic theories. This influenced the organic architecture movement that encouraged a return to nature in search of health, fresh air, and well-being during the industrial revolution.                          The results proved that many Swedish sanatoria aimed to find good environmental conditions that supported the fresh-air treatment, in harmony with the medical theories of the times but also in areas where they were more needed for the working force. They were hardly ever isolated or placed on high altitudes. Supplies like water and heating were generally nearby to provide the sanatoria with the necessary resources, while other needs could be covered by the proximity to train stations or towns. Other sanatoria were placed within cities, in search of better facilities and services, but they gave up the benefits attributed to the clean and fresh air in the patients.                                                           This study shows that spatial analysis has achieved a great understanding of Swedish sanatoria from a new perspective never developed in Sweden. It has demonstrated a relationship between the social workforce and health care, and it could have been the start of a strong investment in popular care in Sweden that has not stopped since.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valeria Zanetti de Almeida.pdf: 21961147 bytes, checksum: f998102d4f68d92a9eafaf03c327f2e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work has tried to tackle a common speech among São José dos Campos' s residents: the city's lack of identity. As the speech is something that is culturally and historically built, the understanding strictly demands an analysis of the past of the city. The mechanisms that had supposedly affected the identification supports of the residents were researched. The first idea was that if the speech wants a production of proposition, the city is able to hold the space of such production. Therefore, we have proposed to read the speeches that the city produced historically in order to sustain identities. We read about its spaces, its symbols and signs, its architecture, its photographs, printed sources and forms used to endorse representations. We have evidenced a text with a redundant language. Even though São José dos Campos's residents think it is difficult to identify marks linked to the city's memory, the space has created conditions for the residents to certify their industrial vocation. The power of this reference slowly erases, amidst the urban scenery, the elements of past references, more precisely of a time when São José dos Campos's economy was linked to a sanative past. The fading of the identification marks connected to the past has weakend the memory and mutilated the identity. The fact is that identities are not built without memories / O presente trabalho procurou entender um discurso comum aos moradores de São José dos Campos: a falta de identidade da cidade. Como o discurso é algo construído social e historicamente, o entendimento exige obrigatoriamente uma análise do passado da cidade. Tratou-se de buscar no tempo os dispositivos que supostamente teriam abalado os suportes de identificação dos habitantes. Partimos do princípio que, se o discurso enseja uma produção de enunciado, a cidade comporta o espaço dessa produção. Propomos, portanto, ler os discursos que a cidade produziu historicamente para sustentar identidades. Lemos seus espaços, seus símbolos e signos, sua arquitetura, suas fotografias, suas fontes impressas, formas utilizadas para endossar representações. Evidenciamos um texto comportando uma linguagem redundante. Embora os joseenses tenham dificuldade em identificar marcas ligadas a memória da cidade, o espaço criou condições para que o joseense se certificasse da vocação industrial da cidade. A força dessa referência vai apagando aos poucos, na paisagem urbana, os elementos de alusões passadas, mais precisamente de um tempo em que a economia de São José dos Campos esteve vinculada a um passado sanatorial. O apagamento das marcas de identificação ligadas ao passado, enfraqueceu a memória e mutilou a identidade. O fato é que não se constrói identidades sem memória