ABSTRACT
This article aims to discuss feminine participation in the field of health as from the collection of rare works at the Icict/Fiocruz Manguinhos Library, with the innaugural theses being the first step to plot this path. There are still rare analyses which render account on the use and impact of the theses as source of information for research. Moreover, little is discussed on the descriptive elements of such theses and their bibliographic and bibliological features as rare works, which bear implications upon their description and organization to make them available. This is the discussion carried out here, in the assumption that it be possible to start the description of a feminine path in the field of health sciences as from the digitalization of the material identified , as well as making it available to the scientific community , by means of the Fiocruz Institutional Repository , the ARCA.
Keywords:
Women's scientific production; Gender and sciences; Innaugural theses;Rare books.