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The Yellow Demon of Fever
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
Progressive Mothers, Better Babies
In Bahia, Brazil, the decades following emancipation saw the rise of reformers who sought to reshape the citizenry by educating Bahian women in methods for raising “better babies.” The idealized Brazilian would be better equipped to contribute to the labor and organizational needs of a modern nation. Backed by many physicians, politicians, and intellectuals, the resulting welfare programs for mothers and children mirrored complex debates about Brazilian nationality. Examining the local and national contours of this movement, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies investigates families, medical institutions, state-building, and social stratification to trace the resulting policies, which gath...
Public Health and Social Reforms in Portugal (1780-1805)
This monograph provides an innovative analysis of a unique period for social and public health policy in Portuguese history. With a firm basis in archival research, the book examines a lesser-known facet of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in the late Ancien Regime in Portugal: Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, the Intendant-General of Police from 1780 to 1805. By combining the resources of the Intendancy with those of the Casa Pia, an institution for welfare provision and social control that he set up just a month after being appointed, Pina Manique attempted to introduce a variety of projects designed to create a prosperous, healthy, well-educated, informed, clean and hard-working country less inclined to vice and immorality, in which the people would be obedient and the upper classes more magnanimous. One of his greatest achievements was perhaps to understand the link between ill health and poverty and therefore to regard public health as a key area of governance.
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances. This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.
Filantropos da nação: sociedade, saúde e assistência no Brasil e em Portugal
Esta coletânea apresenta estudos desenvolvidos por pesquisadores brasileiros e portugueses sobre os temas da filantropia, da saúde e da organização da assistência. Uma das questões centrais é o conceito de filantropia e sua aplicação nos diversos espaços e períodos históricos abordados, com ênfase na trajetória e atuação de médicos filantropos. Ao abranger contextos culturais diversos e larga periodização, a coletânea pretende oferecer bases para uma discussão atualizada acerca da filantropia e da assistência.
Paradigmas, culturas y saberes
Desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria, se abordan las formas en que el conocimiento científico generado en Europa y su manera de interpretar el mundo fue aceptado en las sociedades latinoamericanas de finales del siglo xix y principios del xx.
O médico dos pobres
Ele foi médico da elite da Bahia, mas também dos pobres e das crianças expostas da Santa Casa da Misericórdia. Voluntário da Guerra do Paraguai, deputado abolicionista e último imame malê de Salvador, era amigo de figuras notáveis do Século XIX, incluindo a Condessa de Barral, amante de Dom Pedro II. Recrutou soldados negros para a Guerra do Paraguai, os Zuavos baianos, e foi professor da primeira faculdade de Medicina.
De que lado você samba? Raça, política e ciência na Bahia do pós-abolição
O livro trata das dinâmicas do racismo na cidade da Bahia – a mais negra do país – nas primeiras décadas depois da Abolição. Ao percorrer diferentes territórios físicos e culturais da capital baiana, focaliza aspectos de sua vida cotidiana (festas, religiosidades e sociabilidades urbanas) e personagens centrais desse momento da cidade. Nesse período, trabalhadores braçais, médicos, cientistas, lideranças religiosas e jornalistas, negros e brancos, elaboravam e disputavam suas crenças, projetos e expectativas para a jovem República que se instituía, reeditando exclusões baseadas em critérios sociorraciais. A obra oferece, assim, uma análise dos confrontos políticos experimentados naqueles anos, marcados pelas mudanças na estrutura de poder e pela ênfase na ciência, especialmente a medicina, como forma de legitimar a exclusão racial e social.
