“…They illustrated how colonial authorities deployed claims about health, disease, climate, and the body as part of efforts to pathologize cultural difference, sustain racial hierarchies, legitimate colonial rule, and justify both subtle and overt forms of violence and exploitation (e.g. Vainfas, 1997; Županov, 2002). Scholars initially presented colonialism as a struggle between mutually exclusive and internally coherent culture groups, usually defined by race, ethnicity, or religion (e.g.…”
Section: Postcolonialism and Plural Histories Of Medicinementioning
Portugal's empire brought together peoples and pathogens, along with wide‐ranging forms of medical expertise and curative practice, into multiethnic and polyglot colonial settlements around the globe. Many aspects of Portuguese imperial policy and much of the work of colonial institutions were fundamentally linked to the challenges of disease, population loss, and the preservation of health. Only in the last half‐century have these dynamics become an area of intensive archival research. The present essay surveys major developments in the history of medicine in Portugal's empire. It links historiographical shifts to the intellectual currents that accompanied colonialism, decolonization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of global health—identifying key interventions and noting significant opportunities for future research.
“…They illustrated how colonial authorities deployed claims about health, disease, climate, and the body as part of efforts to pathologize cultural difference, sustain racial hierarchies, legitimate colonial rule, and justify both subtle and overt forms of violence and exploitation (e.g. Vainfas, 1997; Županov, 2002). Scholars initially presented colonialism as a struggle between mutually exclusive and internally coherent culture groups, usually defined by race, ethnicity, or religion (e.g.…”
Section: Postcolonialism and Plural Histories Of Medicinementioning
Portugal's empire brought together peoples and pathogens, along with wide‐ranging forms of medical expertise and curative practice, into multiethnic and polyglot colonial settlements around the globe. Many aspects of Portuguese imperial policy and much of the work of colonial institutions were fundamentally linked to the challenges of disease, population loss, and the preservation of health. Only in the last half‐century have these dynamics become an area of intensive archival research. The present essay surveys major developments in the history of medicine in Portugal's empire. It links historiographical shifts to the intellectual currents that accompanied colonialism, decolonization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of global health—identifying key interventions and noting significant opportunities for future research.
“…Al consultar la literatura especializada que trata específicamente de los documentos de los siglos XVI y XVII referidos al periodo en que los países de España y Portugal estuvieron bajo una misma corona, hemos encontrado publicaciones relevantes sobre las fuentes documentales existentes; y lo mismo resulta aplicable al caso concreto de las relaciones que, durante esa "Unión Ibérica", mantuvieron España y la colonia, hasta entonces portuguesa, de Brasil. Entre esas publicaciones especializadas figuran de manera destacada las de autores como Cabral de Mello Neto (1966), Dos Santos (1993), Santaella (1990Santaella ( , 2000, López Gómez y García Miraz (2000), González Martínez (2002), Olarán Mújica (2008), García López (2009, y Vainfas (2017).…”
Presentamos los primeros resultados de un proyecto de investigación que tiene como objetivo la identificación y difusión de valiosos documentos históricos relativos al periodo de la Unión Ibérica (1580-1640) que se conservan en las instituciones documentales españolas. Este proyecto aporta luz a una época poco conocida de la historia común de Brasil y España y pretende estrechar los vínculos entre ambos países. La metodología para la identificación de los documentos parte de una revisión bibliográfica que guiará la selección de fuentes en los archivos y bibliotecas de España. Una vez identificados, los documentos seleccionados serán organizados en función de una taxonomía de áreas temáticas establecida a partir de la investigación de los fondos más relevantes de las instituciones citadas. En una primera etapa se realizará la identificación, selección y eventual digitalización de la documentación. Una segunda etapa procurará acercar a la ciudadanía y a los investigadores una selección de los documentos más relevantes a través de diferentes iniciativas entre las que cabe destacar: exposiciones virtuales y presenciales, en España y Brasil; publicaciones científicas y divulgativas y la creación de un portal web donde se enlace y describa una selección de las obras digitalizadas. De esta forma ese importante legado documental quedará más accesible tanto para la comunidad investigadora como para la ciudadanía.
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