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Learning from empire : medicine, knowledge and transfers under Portuguese rule
- Title
- Learning from empire : medicine, knowledge and transfers under Portuguese rule / edited by Poonam Bala.
- Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | R560 .L43 2018 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bala, Poonam, 1958-
- Description
- xii, 257 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 22 cm
- Alternative Title
- Medicine, knowledge and transfers under Portuguese rule
- Subject
- Medical care > Colonies > History. > Portugal
- Medical innovations > Colonies > History. > Portugal
- Medicine > Colonies > History. > Portugal
- Public health > Colonies > Portugal
- Public Health > history
- Colonialism > history
- Internationality > history
- Information Dissemination > history
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- History, Modern 1601-
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600
- Portuguese colonies
- Médecine > Colonies portugaises > Histoire
- Échange de savoirs > Colonies portugaises > Histoire
- Médecine > Innovations technologiques > Colonies portugaises > Histoire
- Santé publique > Colonies portugaises > Histoire
- Portugal > Colonies > Africa, Portuguese-speaking
- Africa
- Portugal > Colonies
- Portugal
- Africa
- India
- Portuguese-speaking Africa
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: explaining agents, transfers and connections under Portuguese rule / Poonam Bala -- Physicians, knowledge and curiosities in Colonial Goa / Poonam Bala -- Medical knowledge and architecture: the case of Goa Central Leprosarium, 1916-1937 / Alice Santiago Faria -- Circulating knowledge: Eighteenth-Century medical manuscripts produced in Portuguese India / Fabiano Bracht and Amélia Polónia -- Crossing the Indian Ocean: African slaves and medical knowledge in Goa / Eugenia Rodrigues -- Portuguese tropical medicine in the Twentieth Century: tensions between the Metropole and the Colonies / Isabel Amaral -- Connecting medicine and surgery: anatomy in Portugal and Portuguese overseas settlements in the Eighteenth Century / Monique Palma -- Public health and disease control in former Portuguese Africa: negotiating health system management and strategies, 1945-1965 / Philip J. Havik -- Seeds against Smallpox: Joaquim Vás and the scientific translation of wild plantain seeds in Goa / Ricardo Roque -- From local herbal medicines to Western drugs: implementing health services in colonial Mozambique / Ana Cristina Roque -- Biomedical health care in Guinea-Bissau, 1900-1974 / Bárbara Direito and Jorge Varanda.
- ISBN
- 9781527515925
- 1527515923
- OCLC
- on1050957774
- 1050957774
- SCSB-9206422
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library