The institutionalisation of medical knowledge and its implications for official healthcare professionals in Portuguese America

The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on health, sickness and treatment in colonial Brazil by examining the movements of the physicians, surgeons and apothecaries who were born, lived or worked in Portuguese America at some point in their careers. The documentary basis consists o...

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Main Author: Abreu, Laurinda (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:por
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27089
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/27089