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

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 …

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

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 …

I s T o R IAN s of Latin America have only recently begun to revise the longstanding image of
nineteenthcentury Latin American physicians who faithfully (and passively) reproduced …

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential
features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging …

ABSTRACT The School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1902 along with the Colonial
Hospital of Lisbon. The Portuguese government recognized the importance of colonising the …

This article addresses different modes of interaction between medical systems, beliefs and
practices under Portuguese colonialism in Asia and Africa. I will argue that there were …

Este artigo pretende problematizar as abordagens vigentes sobre a gênese da medicina
tropical no Brasil, pondo em cena atores, conceitos e práticas médicas do período …

O artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a gênese da medicina tropical e sua relação com as
ideologias nacionalistas e imperialistas. Analisa o debate e a forte oposição, dentro do meio …