Women made visible: the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Portugal

June, 18, 2021

 Women made visible, published in the research note section – on researches still in progress (HCSM Jan-Mar 2021) –  focuses on the scientific research conducted by women at Portugal’s Institute of Tropical Medicine between 1943 and 1966.

The project by João Lourenço Monteiro, doctoral Student at the University of Nova Lisboa, looks at the Institute’s scientific journal to identify the participation of women in tropical medicine during this period. Their publications addressed a variety of subjects and resulted from research carried out in the metropolis as well as Portugal’s overseas colonies. Most of the articles written by these women were co-authored by their male colleagues, reflecting the incorporation of female researchers into scientific networks already established by men. This work in progress provides a starting point to lend visibility to a group of scientific actors who are practically absent from the historiography of tropical medicine. Monteiro, João Lourenço. Women made visible: a different perspective on the history of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Portugal, 1943-1966. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2021, v. 28, n. 1 [Accessed 18 June 2021] Tropical medicine in HCSM: The Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in Moscow Tropical medicine emerged as a specialized field in Europe during the era of colonial expansion. Russia had no colonies in the tropics, but did possess vast territories with hot climates. This review presents the 100-year history of the Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in Moscow, Russia. Chagas disease and tropical medicine in Brazil, 1908-1909 The disease was discovered in 1909 by the Brazilian sanitary physician Carlos Chagas at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute. Railroads and tropical medicine in Brazil This paper by Jaime Benchimol and André Felipe Cândido da Silva, our former and current science editors, shows how railways supported the development of tropical medicine in the First Republic.

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