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From colonial and postcolonial medicine to the Global Health: introduction to t...
Hartz, Zulmira; Ferrinho, Paulo.
Tropical Medicine and Global Health: outputs from the 2nd Luso-Brazilian Meetin...
Amaral, Isabel.
The 2nd Luso-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine: an account
Diogo, Maria Paula.
António Damas Mora and the fight against tropical diseases in Angola (1921-1934)
Damas Mora, LuízInternational commitments after the Berlin Conference (1884-85), economic factors related to increased productivity and humanitarian reasons explain the great progress of Tropical Medicine in the former Portuguese colonies in the period between the beginning and the end of the 20s of the twentieth century. Antonio Damas Mora was an important protagonist of that progress. Between 1921 and 1934, with some flashes...
The contribution of Vital Brazil to tropical medicine: from poisoning to the sp...
Lira-da-Silva, Rejâne M.; Lourenço, Marta; Bochner, Rosany; Vital Brazil, Érico; Kobler Brazil, Tania; Ribeiro da Cunha, Luís EduardoVital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha (1865-1950) is known for his discovery, which to this day saved thousands of lives: the specificity of antiophidic sera. This article is part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Vital Brazil, in order to present and discuss their contributions to Brazilian and international Tropical Medicine, for the study of poisonings by venomous animals and the discovery of specif...
Innovations in the production of knowledge in infectious diseases: history, art...
de Souza, Claudia; de Oliveira, Michele; Gouvea, Maria; Teixeira, Maria; de Barros, Michele; da Hora, Eloisa; Lino, OdilioThis paper intends to reveal the innovation in knowledge production in Infectious Diseases field, particularly in the branch of Health Promotion research of Epidemiology and Social Health Determination Research Laboratory. This branch combines projects which aim to build new ways of promoting health and forms of knowledge production, through workshops, lectures, visits to scientific exhibitions, science centers...
Uses of ceroplastics at the Faculty of Medicine, São Paulo (1930-1950)
Mota, André; Carreta, Jorge AugustoThis article aims to present the use of ceroplastics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo between 1930 and 1950. The pieces in wax, representing pathological conditions, were produced by the artist Augusto Esteves, contracted to work for the chairs of Dermatology and Forensic Medicine. The initial use of wax pieces was essentially didactic, but we consider that this dimension was extrapolated and...
Between dream to madness: portuguese immigrants in the Juquery Hospital, São Pa...
Figueiredo Moura da Silva, Ewerton LuizDuring the 1930s psychiatric discourse around immigration won capillarity. Influenced by Eugenics, the Brazilian psychiatry has positioned itself in favor of an immigration control policy in order to select individual not only foreigners, but also a selection of "racial groups". In this scenario, the immigrants from Portugal came to the eyes of the Brazilian authorities as the ideal model immigrant the country'...
Empiric-metaphysical medicine and modern medicine in Africa
Bado, Jean-PaulThis paper looks to the past to refute a mechanistic vision that perpetuates the colonial perceptions of medicine in African societies. African medical practices existed before, during and after colonization, and it is reductive to consider them under the mantle of tradition, which obfuscates the possibility of analysis and comparison. In place of the inadequate concept of traditional medicine, “empiric-metaphy...
The lepers territory: the creation and consolidation of a Refuge for Lepers in ...
Galvão Tavares, Giovana; Socorro da Luz, Janes; de Castro Peixoto, Josana; Barbosa Campos, Dulcineia Maria; Monteiro, RogérioThis article aims to present the results of research on the territory of lepers living in Anápolis during the years of 1930-1970. The collection and analysis of oral reports, photographic images and documents of individual and institutional archives were used as sources for the research. The leprosarium established in Anápolis was built by the Society of São Vincente de Paulo in the 1930s through public and pri...