A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII
The article aims to analyze the perspective of surgeons and doctors on the climate and diseases in Portuguese America during the 18th century. Based on the medical treaties and other printed materials, it offers to understand how local observations and experience in the Portuguese Empire were elemen...
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| description | The article aims to analyze the perspective of surgeons and doctors on the climate and diseases in Portuguese America during the 18th century. Based on the medical treaties and other printed materials, it offers to understand how local observations and experience in the Portuguese Empire were elements that contributed to the construction of the idea of the tropics in the medical knowledge of the period and to the preparation of specific knowledge about illnesses and healing practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6e38b3fbf874ae8aac6e8ccc9e348182024-02-14T16:53:35ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522021-03-0110.4000/nuevomundo.84176A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIIIJean Luiz Neves AbreuThe article aims to analyze the perspective of surgeons and doctors on the climate and diseases in Portuguese America during the 18th century. Based on the medical treaties and other printed materials, it offers to understand how local observations and experience in the Portuguese Empire were elements that contributed to the construction of the idea of the tropics in the medical knowledge of the period and to the preparation of specific knowledge about illnesses and healing practices.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/8417618th centuryknowledgeTropicsdiseasesPortuguese America |
| spellingShingle | Jean Luiz Neves Abreu A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos 18th century knowledge Tropics diseases Portuguese America |
| title | A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII |
| title_full | A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII |
| title_fullStr | A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII |
| title_full_unstemmed | A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII |
| title_short | A construção dos trópicos na medicina portuguesa: saberes e práticas no ultramar do século XVIII |
| title_sort | construcao dos tropicos na medicina portuguesa saberes e praticas no ultramar do seculo xviii |
| topic | 18th century knowledge Tropics diseases Portuguese America |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/84176 |
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