One of the points that will be developed in this article is the educational process initiated by physicians to give visibility to cancer and mobilize society around the disease in Bahia, Brazil, between the 1840s and 1950s. Within the limits allowed by this text, there is the intention to analyze the changes which have occurred in the theories and biomedical technologies that interfered in the effort of cognition and response to that disease, as well as the consequences of these definitions in the structuring of health care.
cancer; education; health; medicine; disease