History Center Events
Fall 2024 Nursing History Forums
"The 'Brazilian Ladies of Toronto' and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940s: A Transnational History of Nursing"
Luciana Barizon Luchesi, PhD, RN
Dec. 3, 2024 at 12 p.m. (ET)
McLeod Hall, Room 5060, and on Zoom
Co-sponsored by the UVA School of Nursing's Global Initiatives
This presentation analyzes the Rockefeller Foundation's influence on the organization of nursing schools in Brazil during the mid-20th century, particularly the University of São Paulo School of Nursing. In 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored four sanitary educators to undertake nursing education at the University of Toronto School of Nursing, where they were introduced to the American standard curriculum in nursing. Upon their return to Brazil, these four educators--the so-called "Ladies of Toronto"--became leaders in Brazilian nursing. A close analysis of their biographies reveals how their experiences with North American nursing education shaped their approach to nursing education in Brazil. In this way, their biographies contribute to historiographical debates about the influence of scientific philanthropy, the politics o
f nursing education, and the global circulation of knowledge, practices, and policies related to nursing education in the 1940s.
Luciana Barizon Luchesi is a Brazilian nurse historian and professor of psychiatric nursing at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. A former president of the Brazilian Academy of Nursing History, she is currently a visiting scholar with the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
For a recording of any of these talks, please contact the Bjoring Center's program manager.
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