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Between bozales and subjects of color. Smallpox vaccination in the cities of Ri...
Hasan Brizola, Jaqueline The year 1804 marks the arrival of the Spanish expedition coordinated by the doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis, who brought the smallpox vaccine to the Spanish domains on the American continent, a preventive measure devised by the Englishman Edward Jenner in 1798. This paper aims to present data on the vaccination of enslaved and non-white people in Havana, Cuba, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 1804 a...
Sleeping sickness (1890-1920): was Mandombe a volunteer research subject for hi...
Cotrim Guimarães, Maria Regina; Lauria, Lilian de Mello With the perspective of contributing to a history of global health, we propose a history of patients in clinical research into African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), at the turn of the 19th/20th century. We emphasize the value of handwritten primary sources, notably those from the field, produced in several European colonies in Africa which reflected clinical and laboratory studies of these patient...
For a prosopography of women who worked in Tropical Medicine in Brazil (1940-1980)
Aparecida Valente, Polyana; Souza, Ailton Junior de Paula In recent years, there has been an increase in studies on the presence of women in the field of sciences. Tropical medicine appears as a fertile ground for expanding this discussion, as it has prioritized male narratives in its accounts. There are few records of female trajectories and the processes of women’s involvement in this field. Faced with these gaps, we seek to problematize issues that contribute...
History of leishmaniases in the New World: a brief overview
Benchimol, Jaime L.“Leishmaniasis is a disease of dogs and those who lead a dog’s life,” said a parasitologist from Ceará in the 1950s. This is true, but in Brazil the disease has been breaking down the social and geographical barriers that characterized its initial distribution. Post-war publications by Brazilian doctors and scientists show a growing exchange with researchers from the United States and other continents, stimulat...
Bauru and its ulcer: the Brazilian Northwest railroad – NOB – and the city’s sa...
Pallotta, Fabio Paride In the context of the broader reflection on the theme “One health, new historical approaches after COVID-19”, we seek to bring a theme that illustrates the intimate relationship between human health, the animal world and the environment, which is part of the history of tropical medicine, and, in particular, the history of Leishmaniasis. This work aims to analyze the relationship between the construction o...
Gaspar Vianna and the globalization of therapeutic methods for leishmaniasis us...
Junior, Denis G. JogasIn this article, I intend to demonstrate the process of globalization of intravenous injections of emetic tartar (trivalent antimonial) as the main therapeutic approach in dealing with various forms of leishmaniasis worldwide. Originally proposed by the young physician from Pará, Gaspar de Oliveira Vianna, in 1913, emetic tartar was the first substance considered specific in combating leishmaniasis, which repre...
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...