This article explores the labor struggles of doctors in late 1970s and early 1980s Brazil, the final years of the nation's dictatorship. Health workers’ protests for better salaries and working conditions were extensive and reflected a dramatic change in the way medical practitioners in Brazil perceived their professional and political identities. Fusing together histories of medicine and labor, the article shows how physicians not only led strikes and unionized by their tens of thousands but also collaborated with blue-collar sectors in a larger struggle for working rights, access to healthcare, and structural reforms. Dictatorship officials, the article reveals, were significantly concerned by hospital strikes and particularly by the emerging cross-sector alliance. In this sense, the doctors’ movement played a significant role in challenging Brazil's military rule and advancing the nation's transition to democracy.

本文探讨了 20 世纪 70 年代末和 80 年代初巴西医生的劳工斗争，即该国独裁统治的最后几年。卫生工作者要求提高工资和工作条件的抗议活动范围广泛，反映出巴西医生对其职业和政治身份的看法发生了巨大变化。文章将医学和劳工的历史融合在一起，展示了医生不仅领导了数以万计的罢工和工会，而且还与蓝领阶层合作，为工作权利、医疗保健和结构改革进行了更大的斗争。文章显示，独裁官员对医院罢工，特别是新兴的跨部门联盟非常担忧。从这个意义上说，医生运动在挑战巴西军事统治、推动国家民主​​转型方面发挥了重要作用。