Centers and Provinces - The circulation of medical knowledge
Centers and Provinces - The circulation of medical knowledge
The main goal of this project is to clarify the processes of diffusion of medical doctrines and of the establishment of new medical theories both in Portugal and Brazil through the 19th century. There are two structuring axis in the project based on two different disciplinary areas. The first is set on the conventional history of the health sciences; the second is set on new trends within anthropology and social history. Within the first venue, we will approach (1) the formal teaching of the health sciences, with particular focus on the new medical-surgical schools in Portugal, Brazil and colonial territories under Portuguese administration; (2) the diffusion of new ideas, doctrines and theories in medical scientific journals in Portuguese; (3) the circulation of medical students, physicians and written information between the emerging centers of medical teaching in Portugal and Brazil and the main centers of medical teaching in Northern Europe; (4) the circulation of written information between Portugal and Brazil; (5) the circulation of physicians through the different colonial territories under Portuguese administration.
Within the anthropological-historical venue, we will examine the processes of dissention, encounter, confrontation and hybridization between systems of healing that are based in different cultural, social and cognitive frameworks; we will organize research in two different structuring lines of fracture: the colonizers/colonized duality, in which we will study aspects of (1) the establishment of European based medicine in non-European contexts; (2) the representations of the colonial authorities about healers and indigenous treatments; (3) the representations of local populations regarding the European-based and colonial medicine; and the elite/masses duality, in which we will analyse (1) the process of establishment of conventional, urban and elite medicine among non-literate, rural and non-elite populations; and (5) the perception and adoption of medical and pharmaceutical conventional knowledge and processes by the non elite population and its insertion on other sorts of healing systems.
Methods will be based on case-studies of exemplary situations like specific doctrines, such as hydrotherapy and climatology, new theories under debate, such as the etiology of cholera, specific interactions, such as resistance and hybridization in smallpox prevention in Asia, or cooperation between healers and doctors in Africa, circuits of knowledge diffusion, such as those promoted by certain periodicals and scientific associations, and the like. We will develop the case studies according to the already identified, and in the process of being identified, documental sources. In the first (conventional medical knowledge) venue, we will work with (1) the official documentation of medical-surgical schools of Lisbon, Oporto, Bahia and Rio, plus the faculty of medicine of the University of Coimbra, plus the sources related toteh attempts of formalizing medical teaching in the colonies, successful in India and hardly accomplished in Africa; (2) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical journals in Portugal, Brazil and India; (3) following the individual trajectories of physicians and pharmaceutical doctors who circulated between main centers and peripheries and were involved in the diffusion and discussion of new knowledge; (4) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical associations in Portugal and Brazil; (5) the study of colonial physicians throughout the different colonial territories. As for the anthropological-historical venue, we will recover previous research and analysis.
Within the anthropological-historical venue, we will examine the processes of dissention, encounter, confrontation and hybridization between systems of healing that are based in different cultural, social and cognitive frameworks; we will organize research in two different structuring lines of fracture: the colonizers/colonized duality, in which we will study aspects of (1) the establishment of European based medicine in non-European contexts; (2) the representations of the colonial authorities about healers and indigenous treatments; (3) the representations of local populations regarding the European-based and colonial medicine; and the elite/masses duality, in which we will analyse (1) the process of establishment of conventional, urban and elite medicine among non-literate, rural and non-elite populations; and (5) the perception and adoption of medical and pharmaceutical conventional knowledge and processes by the non elite population and its insertion on other sorts of healing systems.
Methods will be based on case-studies of exemplary situations like specific doctrines, such as hydrotherapy and climatology, new theories under debate, such as the etiology of cholera, specific interactions, such as resistance and hybridization in smallpox prevention in Asia, or cooperation between healers and doctors in Africa, circuits of knowledge diffusion, such as those promoted by certain periodicals and scientific associations, and the like. We will develop the case studies according to the already identified, and in the process of being identified, documental sources. In the first (conventional medical knowledge) venue, we will work with (1) the official documentation of medical-surgical schools of Lisbon, Oporto, Bahia and Rio, plus the faculty of medicine of the University of Coimbra, plus the sources related toteh attempts of formalizing medical teaching in the colonies, successful in India and hardly accomplished in Africa; (2) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical journals in Portugal, Brazil and India; (3) following the individual trajectories of physicians and pharmaceutical doctors who circulated between main centers and peripheries and were involved in the diffusion and discussion of new knowledge; (4) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical associations in Portugal and Brazil; (5) the study of colonial physicians throughout the different colonial territories. As for the anthropological-historical venue, we will recover previous research and analysis.
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The main goal of this project is to clarify the processes of diffusion of medical doctrines and of the establishment of new medical theories both in Portugal and Brazil through the 19th century. There are two structuring axis in the project based on two different disciplinary areas. The first is set on the conventional history of the health sciences; the second is set on new trends within anthropology and social history. Within the first venue, we will approach (1) the formal teaching of the health sciences, with particular focus on the new medical-surgical schools in Portugal, Brazil and colonial territories under Portuguese administration; (2) the diffusion of new ideas, doctrines and theories in medical scientific journals in Portuguese; (3) the circulation of medical students, physicians and written information between the emerging centers of medical teaching in Portugal and Brazil and the main centers of medical teaching in Northern Europe; (4) the circulation of written information between Portugal and Brazil; (5) the circulation of physicians through the different colonial territories under Portuguese administration.
Within the anthropological-historical venue, we will examine the processes of dissention, encounter, confrontation and hybridization between systems of healing that are based in different cultural, social and cognitive frameworks; we will organize research in two different structuring lines of fracture: the colonizers/colonized duality, in which we will study aspects of (1) the establishment of European based medicine in non-European contexts; (2) the representations of the colonial authorities about healers and indigenous treatments; (3) the representations of local populations regarding the European-based and colonial medicine; and the elite/masses duality, in which we will analyse (1) the process of establishment of conventional, urban and elite medicine among non-literate, rural and non-elite populations; and (5) the perception and adoption of medical and pharmaceutical conventional knowledge and processes by the non elite population and its insertion on other sorts of healing systems.
Methods will be based on case-studies of exemplary situations like specific doctrines, such as hydrotherapy and climatology, new theories under debate, such as the etiology of cholera, specific interactions, such as resistance and hybridization in smallpox prevention in Asia, or cooperation between healers and doctors in Africa, circuits of knowledge diffusion, such as those promoted by certain periodicals and scientific associations, and the like. We will develop the case studies according to the already identified, and in the process of being identified, documental sources. In the first (conventional medical knowledge) venue, we will work with (1) the official documentation of medical-surgical schools of Lisbon, Oporto, Bahia and Rio, plus the faculty of medicine of the University of Coimbra, plus the sources related toteh attempts of formalizing medical teaching in the colonies, successful in India and hardly accomplished in Africa; (2) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical journals in Portugal, Brazil and India; (3) following the individual trajectories of physicians and pharmaceutical doctors who circulated between main centers and peripheries and were involved in the diffusion and discussion of new knowledge; (4) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical associations in Portugal and Brazil; (5) the study of colonial physicians throughout the different colonial territories. As for the anthropological-historical venue, we will recover previous research and analysis.
Within the anthropological-historical venue, we will examine the processes of dissention, encounter, confrontation and hybridization between systems of healing that are based in different cultural, social and cognitive frameworks; we will organize research in two different structuring lines of fracture: the colonizers/colonized duality, in which we will study aspects of (1) the establishment of European based medicine in non-European contexts; (2) the representations of the colonial authorities about healers and indigenous treatments; (3) the representations of local populations regarding the European-based and colonial medicine; and the elite/masses duality, in which we will analyse (1) the process of establishment of conventional, urban and elite medicine among non-literate, rural and non-elite populations; and (5) the perception and adoption of medical and pharmaceutical conventional knowledge and processes by the non elite population and its insertion on other sorts of healing systems.
Methods will be based on case-studies of exemplary situations like specific doctrines, such as hydrotherapy and climatology, new theories under debate, such as the etiology of cholera, specific interactions, such as resistance and hybridization in smallpox prevention in Asia, or cooperation between healers and doctors in Africa, circuits of knowledge diffusion, such as those promoted by certain periodicals and scientific associations, and the like. We will develop the case studies according to the already identified, and in the process of being identified, documental sources. In the first (conventional medical knowledge) venue, we will work with (1) the official documentation of medical-surgical schools of Lisbon, Oporto, Bahia and Rio, plus the faculty of medicine of the University of Coimbra, plus the sources related toteh attempts of formalizing medical teaching in the colonies, successful in India and hardly accomplished in Africa; (2) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical journals in Portugal, Brazil and India; (3) following the individual trajectories of physicians and pharmaceutical doctors who circulated between main centers and peripheries and were involved in the diffusion and discussion of new knowledge; (4) the comparative study of medical and pharmaceutical associations in Portugal and Brazil; (5) the study of colonial physicians throughout the different colonial territories. As for the anthropological-historical venue, we will recover previous research and analysis.
Objectivos:
1.Characterize the circulation of medical knowledge in the 19th and early 20th century, working towards a model that accounts for the relationship between multiple centers and multiple peripheries; <br />2.Characterize the transit of medical ideas and personnel in the context of Portuguese speaking societies <br />3.Contribute to the understanding of the interaction between new and traditional knowledge in the context of the 19th century medical developments and its aftermath in public health issues and epidemic control<br />4.Promote comparative research in Portugal and Brazil and strengthen the links between their academic communities <br />5.Integrate younger scholars with promising projects on comparative research<br />6.Create a corpus of case studies related to Portuguese speaking societies suitable as a reference in international scholarship on medical history and also a ground for theoretical explorations<br />7.Integrate anthropological and historical perspectives in the understanding of a complex medical history with multiple actors, plots and parts
