By analyzing several medical treatises written between the sixteenth and the eighteenth
centuries, this paper will discuss the experience that the authors of these texts accumulated …

By analyzing several medical treatises written during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, this chapter discusses the experience that the authors of these texts accumulated …

Portuguese colonial exploration and settlement in Brazil during the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries included a significant, though to date largely underappreciated …

This dissertation is a re-examination of a group of doctors in Brazil in the second half of the
nineteenth century called the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana. It uses new historiographical …

Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian
physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of …

30 I. AMARAL historians (Lemaine et al., 1976; Amaral, 2006). Tropical medicine became a
recognized field of teaching, research, and professional practice in the twentieth century, as …

This article explores how diseases were contemplated and faced in Portuguese America in
the early 1820s, shortly before the consolidation of the political rupture with Portugal that …

Historians of medicine have largely undervalued, or failed to appreciate entirely, the
importance of Portuguese global exploration and colonial settlement, especially relating to …

The emergence of the idea of tropical disease is part of the legacy of European empire-
building in places such as Brazil. Early European witnesses in the tropics believed those …

The following dissertation traces the convergence of science, culture, and politics in
Portugal's most important tropical colonies—Goa, India and Bahia, Brazil. It shows how …