This workshop proposes a space for reflection and debate on the different ways of understanding, practicing, and transmitting knowledge related to health and illness between the 18th and 19th centuries. In this way, it offers the opportunity to compare perspectives that intersect science, politics, and public action, revealing a multifaceted universe of agents and interests inherent in understanding human health care practices.

The presentations address topics such as epidemics, medical leave and surgical practice in the 18th century, the production and circulation of knowledge, issues surrounding infant nutrition, and the coexistence of medical practices and popular knowledge, notably through the actions of healers and bloodletters.

 

This event is organized by Tânia Ferreira, a doctoral fellow at Lab2PT/IN2PAST, together with Monique Palma, Invited Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta Portugal and integrated researcher at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), and Laura Luiz, a master’s student in History and Social Culture at the Inter-unit Graduate Program in History (Assis Campus and Franca Campus) of UNESP, with support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

 

The workshop also includes the participation of Professor Alexandra Esteves (ICS/Lab2PT/IN2PAST), with the presentation “The great influenza epidemics of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Russian flu, the pneumonic flu, and the Asian flu in Portugal”.

 

Sponsoring institution: Universidade Aberta

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