In the mid-15th century, and with the increase in European sea travels, contacts between Europe and the rest of the world became regular. Ships became primarily responsible for intercontinental connections as well as for the circulation and transport of people and animals, raw materials and goods, knowledge and technology, diseases, pathogens, and healing practices. Long-distance travels shortened distances, br...
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This paper results from the initiative taken by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of Lisbon, IHMT (institution representing today the first school of Portuguese Tropical Medicine, founded in Lisbon in 1902) in 2013, promoting the 2nd National Congress of Tropical Medicine, in memory of the 1st congress occurred 61 years before. It aims to analyse the motivations which conducted to the 1st National ...
The end of the WW2 is a crucial milestone in the narrative of tropical medicine. It reorganizes not only the geopolitical map as well as the scientific and medical map of a consolidated medical area setting networks of knowledge, interests and global development strategies. The portuguese singular position in the international scene pointed particular dynamics in relation to tropical medicine, in particular as ...
The first course on the History of Tropical Medicine took place between October and December 2014, by using an innovative platform at Web 2.0. This platform enabled the development of training activities, simultaneously and real-time, in two different countries—Brazil and Portugal. This course involved around 30 students and teachers on both sides of the Atlantic and emerged as the result of an inter-institutio...
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This joined paper is the outcome of the 1st edition of a short course in History of Tropical Medicine that was held at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in April 2013, during the 2nd National Congress of Tropical Medicine. This course hosts a set of entangled agendas, which covers different geographical and thematic areas along the 19th and the 20th centuries. In this framework, three main topics a...
Isabel Sanches conversa com Isabel Amaral
Todas as crianças, independentemente das suas necessidades, deveriam ter acesso a uma educação de qualidade e a serem incluídas nas suas famílias e comunidades. Esta afirmação inclui as crianças mais vulneráveis, em particular as crianças com dificuldades intelectuais e multideficiência. Os resultados da investigação sobre a educação de crianças com dificuldades intelectuais e multideficiência ainda não produzi...
Este capítulo aborda a Química Física da Vida, incluindo a fotossíntese, a energia, a mecanobiologia, a microfluídica e as membranas, com especial foco nos seres vivos, em particular no Homem. A fotossíntese e a energia são abordadas no primeiro subcapítulo. Assim, a problemática da geração de energia, formas de conversão da mesma, bem como a produção de trabalho são introduzidas. No segundo subcapítulo é abord...