This paper makes an analyses regarding the book “Saúde 2040 - Planeamento de médicos e enfermeiros em Portugal”, authored by Diana Lopes, Eduardo Anselmo Castro and Jorge Simões, through the study results that the authors present and the different paths presented and the consequences for the formative capacity and the health human resources management for the future.; Neste artigo faz-se uma análise tendo como ...
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This article is based on the opening lecture of the 1st meeting of science and health museums and institutes of Lisbon metropolitan area - heritage, science and health: intervening, knowing, preserving and valuing, held in November 2017. The article presents and discusses the multiple roles played by health heritage, in particular concerning conservation and preservation, science communication, education, highe...
Portuguese architect Raúl Lino (1879-1974) was a one of a kind figure in the Portuguese architectural scene. He is considered by some of the well-known historians one of the most important Portuguese architects from the 20th century. His eclectic and vast work had an enormous impact on the field, making him a gatekeeper who helped to shape architecture in Portugal. He was simultaneously conservative and revolut...
Currently ‘heritage’ has several meanings and definitions, many of them still in development, while proposing a subdivision of this concept in different ‘heritage typologies’. Therefore, it is possible to discuss the (science of) health heritage presupposing a legacy that extends to a community that understands it as its own and values it. The personal and family information system that emerge as the object of ...
Cinema allowed the possibility of capturing scientific phenomena that would otherwise be impossible solely with photography and drawing. Cinematographic techniques owe immensely to E. Muybridge and E-J. Marey. Marey began to record the movements of pathological bodies in 1888, through chronophotography, identifying biological functions as mechanical phenomena, directing films on the physiology of the body. In t...
Between 2009 and 2011, the project Inventory of the Tile Heritage of Central Lisbon’s Hospital Centre identified and documented the tile decorations still found in situ in the hospitals of São José, Santa Marta, Santo António dos Capuchos, and, later, Curry Cabral. Promoted by the Az – Azulejo Research Network (ARTIS-FLUL), this project aimed not only to update the existing inventories, such as the one carried ...
For the history of furniture of the twentieth century in Portugal it is important to study health premises. Hospitals, sanatoriums, preventoria, dispensaries, educational and research institutions, all of them promoted the use of furniture which at that moment was considered appropriate to their functions. Through the use of industrially produced objects, or designed from scratch for each building, health conte...
The museum of the Portuguese Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine houses some scale models of medical facilities built in Mozambique in the first half of the 20th century in small villages to serve the indigenous population. Those facilities were intended as part of a network of medical assistance designed by the physician Francisco Ferreira dos Santos in the early 1920s that should cover the whole provin...