History of tropical and neglected diseases from the 19th to the 21th centuries

October 2016

The symposium “History of tropical and neglected diseases from the 19th to the 21th centuries” will be held during the 25th Congress of History of Science and Technology, from 23 to 29 July 2017,  in Rio de Janeiro.

It will be organized by Isabel Amaral (Universidade Nova, Lisbon), Daniel Headrick (Roosevelt University, Chicago), André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Jaime Larry Benchimol (Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro).

The Symposium aims to promote broader reflections about these diseases on the national and international agendas and about the role played by tropical medicine in post-World War II programs adopted either by post-colonial empires or by nations formed recently or  long ago.

Those who wish to participate in this Symposium are invited to submit abstract of a paper to be presented in one of its session until October 31, 2016. Abstracts should be in English.

They must be sent to ima@fct.unl.pt with a copy to jailabench@gmail.com. Submtitted abstracts will be selected by the Symposium organizers in accordance with their pertinence to the Symposium’s rationale and to the number of sessions still available.

Read about tropical diseases in HCS-Manguinhos:
Kropf, Simone Petraglia and Sá, Magali Romero The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease (1908-1909): tropical medicine in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2009, vol.16, suppl.1, p.13-34. ISSN 0104-5970

Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia.  Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970

Mónica García, Claudia. Las ‘fiebres del Magdalena’:medicina y sociedad en la construcción de una noción médica colombiana, 1859-1886. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.63-89. ISSN 0104-5970