RESUMO
Despite the multitude of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century British medical publications regarding empire and health, Hans Sloane's A Voyage To the Islands [of] Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica (1707) was the first to incorporate significant numbers of female and African patients among its printed case histories. Comprising some sixty-four pages of the introduction, this unique set of records affords scholars the rare opportunity to examine how patients (of both sexes and races, various ages, and all social levels) residing in a "torrid zone" were diagnosed and treated by an English physician during the 1680s. Sloane had expected to encounter illnesses vastly different from those found in England when he arrived in Jamaica, but after practicing medicine in Jamaica for over a year, he concluded that there existed very little difference in the manifestation of illnesses in different climates. Although some ailments were sex-specific and culture-specific, for the most part Sloane transgressed categories of gender and race by diagnosing and treating all his patients according to the same medical ideology. And although it did not directly challenge accepted medical views, Sloane's Voyage revealed incongruities in dealing with such categories within the context of early imperial medicine.
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Medicina Tropical/história , Clima , Cultura , Doença/etnologia , Medicina Ambiental/história , Feminino , História do Século XVIII , Humanos , Irlanda , Jamaica , Masculino , Grupos Raciais , Classe Social , Saúde da Mulher/históriaRESUMO
Na primeira metade do século XIX, o paradigma ambientalista predominou nos debates médicos. No Brasil, ele foi responsável pela construção de uma agenda higienista que condicionou a atuação dos médicos e deu a chave interpretativa para os problemas relacionados à saúde pública. Neste artigo abordam-se estas e outras questões, a partir de um texto do médico português Antonio Correa de Lacerda (1777-1852), que viveu em Belém (PA) e São Luís (MA) entre 1818 e 1852. Trata-se do manuscrito 'Cholera-morbus', de 1832, ano em que a epidemia atingiu Paris. Nele, Lacerda mobiliza diferentes conhecimentos para apresentar uma explicação coerente sobre a doença, permitindo-nos acompanhar uma interpretação anticontagionista calcada na clínica anatomopatológica e como pôde um médico provincial produzir conhecimentos originais sobre a relação entre clima, saúde e cultura, inclusive sobre o uso medicinal de plantas amazônicas.
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Cólera/história , Medicina Ambiental/história , História da Medicina , Saúde Pública/históriaRESUMO
Aborda questões relativas ao paradigma ambientalista que predominou nos debates médicos na primeira metade do século XIX, a partir de um texto do médico português Antonio Correa de Lacerda (1777-1852), que viveu em Belém(PA) e Säo Luís (MA) entre 1818 e 1852. Trata-se do manuscrito ´Cholera-morbus´, de 1832, ano em que a epidemia atingiu Paris...(AU)
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Cólera/história , Medicina Ambiental/história , Manuscrito Médico , Saúde Pública/história , História da MedicinaRESUMO
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the environmentalist paradigm dominated medical debate. In Brazil, it engendered the construction of a hygienist agenda that framed physicians' work and provided an interpretive key to public health-related issues The article addresses these and other questions from teh perspective of a text by Portuguese physician Antonio Correa de Lacerda who resided in Belém (Pará) and São Luís (Maranhão) between 1818 and 1852. Entitled "Cholera-morbus," the manuscript was written in 1832, the year the epidemic hit Paris. Lacerda calls on different areas of knowledge in his presentation of a coherent explanation of the disease, affording us a view of an anticontagionist interpretation grounded in anatomopathological practice. He likewise demonstrates how it was possible for a provincial doctor to produce original knowledge on the relation between climate, health, and culture, including the medicinal use of Amazon plants.