Profile

Email

tania21mail@sapo.pt

Science ID

CF1B-756F-EEB4

Ciênciavitae

ORCID

Lab2PT Group

LandS - Landscapes and Societies

Scientific Area

History

Supervision

Alexandra Esteves

Project Title

Preventing and intervening to make people live: health concerns in Portugal. (1834-1918)

Abstract

The central object of this investigation is the study of health concerns as a medical, political and social issue, between 1834 and 1918. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, medical and political authorities changed their view of public health, emphasizing the importance of prevention in the process of reduction of diseases. Driven by the scientific advances that took place during this period, such as the health reforms in England led by Edwin Chadwick, the Pasteurianism revolution, the development of microbiology, the new social understanding about the living conditions of populations, “making people live”, that is, providing sanitary and social actions with a view to prolonging human life, has become a duty of governments. In this project, we seek to evaluate how concerns about the health of populations became a biopolitical issue and were decisive in the configuration of a new field of medicine, public health.

Keywords

Epidemics; Sanitarianism; Public health; City of Porto (19th-20th centuries); Diseases (History); Medicine (19th-20th centuries)

FCT Reference

2023.01698.BD

Organic Unit

Institute of Social Sciences of University of Minho