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Maria Cristina Freres de Souza1, Gizele da Conceição Soares Martins2, Maria Angélica de Almeida Peres3
1Hospital do Câncer, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Objective:
to describe the strategies of nurses in the National Institute of Cancer to disseminate its scientific capital and discuss the symbolic effects capitalized in the field of oncology in the 1980s.
Method:
historical social studies, with primary sources consisting of written documents and oral reports, and as secondary sources, articles and books on the subject, based on the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of scientific capital and habitus.
Results:
it revealed the effective performance of nurses in this Institute on policies of cancer prevention and control and strategies used in the teaching of oncology nursing at the undergraduate level. In conclusion, nursing stands out in this context, through the dissemination of its scientific knowledge, as a participant in the construction of a scientific field of oncology nursing in Brazil, highlighting the occupation of important social areas.
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