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Portuguese participation in the Seventh International Congresses on Tropical Me...
Figueiredo Moura da Silva, Ewerton Luiz This article aims to address the relationship between Portuguese and Brazilian tropicalist doctors in the context of the struggle for decolonization of Portugal’s territories in Africa, having as its object of analysis the Portuguese participation in the Seventh International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, in September 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. At the beginning of the 1960s, the war began agai...
The enigma of the mystery patients at Egas Moniz Hospital and the discovery of ...
Basso, PaulaThis work aims to reflect on the contributions of Odette Santos-Ferreira and her research group at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon and the team of doctors at Hospital Egas Moniz in Lisbon, who unraveled the enigma of patients admitted to this hospital since the end of the 1970s, with an unknown tropical disease. The integration of these patients in the seroepidemiological study on LAV (HIV) ...
Hygiene, medical hydrotherapy and tropical diseases
Hasse, ManuelaThe 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century represented particularly challenging periods for medicine, which faced numerous difficulties in controlling a wide range of pathologies for which science had not yet found an answer. Faced with this, medicine turned to the knowledge and practices of the past, based on the use and exploitation of natural resources. Hygiene practices were valued as a prev...
Complex historical relationships between animals and humans: reports of the “pa...
Esteves, Alexandra The relationships between human beings and animals have varied over time, to which, among many other fators, the progress of humanity, scientific and technological development, cultural diversity and the way in which animals have been considered have contributed. In contemporary times, a more “humanist” conception of the animal has been consolidated, far from the Cartesian vision, according to which anima...
Waves of fear: the Parnaíba River and water-related disease outbreaks in Teresi...
Santos, Danielle Filgueiras; Marinho, Joseanne Zingleara Soares This work aims to analyze the health and disease conditions in the daily lives of the riverside populations of the Parnaíba River in Teresina, Piauí, during the period from 1889 to 1930. At this time, Brazil underwent significant changes as it transitioned from a monarchical regime to a republic. States gained more autonomy to address internal issues, such as health concerns. However, in the context of Pi...
Come on, gentlemen: in the name of civilzations shoe up yourselves! The camping...
Ferreira, Tânia Sofia Since 1928, the Portuguese Social Prophylaxis League has led what would become one of its most emblematic and long-lasting campaigns, the fight against the “unseemly, unsightly and unhygienic habit of bare feet”. The initiative came about as part of the awareness of the high mortality rate, deformities and amputations of the lower limbs caused by tetanus, to which bare feet were continually subjected. The...
Healthcare in Piauí from hygiene stations (1930-1945)
Silva, Rakell Milena Osório; Marinho, Joseane Zingleara Soares The purpose of the work is to analyze how hygiene stations in Piauí began to design hygienic practices during the governments of federal interveners, between 1930 and 1945, which were based on the prevention and therapy of the main illnesses of the period, such as such as malaria, syphilis, worms and tuberculosis. From the beginning of the Vargas government, several political disputes occurred within the ...
About national Languages of Angola
Boal, Manuel RodriguesThe article addresses the issue related to the situation of the national languages of former european colonies in Africa, more specifically the case of Angola where the status of Portuguese as an official language remains the exclusive reference in State administration, education, including in primary and pre-school instruction, with negative effects not only on children’s academic performance but also on the m...
Description of the epidemiological profile and trend of toxicological events at...
Furtado Abrantes, Larissa; Santos Carneiro, Ada; Oliveira de Albuquerque, Victoria; Bruno Pires Pedrosa, José; Guedes Barbosa Ramos, Andreza Introduction: Poisonings or poisonings seriously affect public health, producing major socioeconomic effects, causing costs and damages that could be avoided. Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile and trends of toxicological events resulting from exogenous poisonings and accidents caused by venomous animals treated at the Júlio Bandeira University Hospital. Materials and Methods: A documentar...
Networking, training, translational research and health evaluation
Fortunato, Paula; Ferrinho, Paulo; Fortes, Filomeno.