ABSTRACT
Objective
to discuss the conditions that enabled home care at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Method
study of the genealogic inspiration on home care. The empirical material consisted of legal documents on the subject that were published in the Official Journal. The documents were studied using analytical tools, such as Power, Discipline and Biopolitics, which were inspired in Foucault.
Results
two analytical categories were established, “home inspection: visiting nurses and tuberculosis” and “records: political and economic apparatus”.
Final considerations
tuberculosis, the new profession of visiting nurses, inspection records and the detailed analysis of the cities grant home care a nature of surveillance, inspection and control to conduct the behaviour of individuals.
Population surveillance; Home care services; Home nursing; Nursing