Jan 2015
The 2nd Luso-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine will be held in Lisbon on October, 14-16 2015. It will offer an opportunity for bringing together researchers from a range of countries and disciplines in order to discuss the role of tropical medicine in national,colonial, post-colonial, international and global contexts.
The programme of the Meeting will feature papers addressing the following topics:
• Medical knowledge and practices: plural histories and traditions
• Actors, pathogenic agents, diseases and institutions
• International public health policies and networks
• Archives and museums: documents and collections
• Tropical medicine and the environment
• Tropical medicine and bioethics
All proposals should be submitted electronically by 2 March 2015 via the event’s website (available at the end of January). Presenters will be allotted 20 minutes and their papers may be delivered in Portuguese, and English. However, there will be no simultaneous translation.
For more information, click here. If you have any questions related to the scientific programme, paper or session proposals, please, do not hesitate to contact Isabel Amaral (ima@fct.unl.pt) or Jaime Benchimol (jbench@oi.com.br), the chairs of the programme committee.
Read 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