Livro História da Medicina em Portugal - Origens, ligações e contextos Autor Manuel Valente Alves Concepção gráfica Nina Szielasko Apoio Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Edição Porto Editora Local e data Porto, 2014 capa dura 448 pp ISBN: 978-972-006-292-5
O livro História da Medicina em Portugal – Origens, ligações e contextos de Manuel Valente Alves mostra a evolução da medicina portuguesa entrelaçada com a ciência, as artes visuais, a filosofia, a política e outros domínios do saber. De grande beleza gráfica, profusamente ilustrado com centenas de imagens criteriosamente seleccionadas, muitas delas provenientes de alguns dos mais importantes museus, bibliotecas e arquivos históricos do mundo, este livro, escrito em linguagem simples e acessível mesmo a leitores não especializados, constitui uma surpreendente viagem através da História da Medicina, desde os seus primórdios até aos dias de hoje, centrada na realidade portuguesa. | Book History of Medicine in Portugal - Origins, links and contexts Author Graphic design Nina Szielasko Support Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Publisher Porto Editora Place and date Porto, 2014 Hard cover 448 pp ISBN: 978-972-006-292-5 The book History of Medicine in Portugal - Origins, links and contexts by Manuel Valente Alves shows the evolution of Portuguese medicine intertwined with science, visual arts, philosophy, politics and other fields of knowledge. With a great graphical beauty, profusely illustrated with hundreds of carefully selected images, many of them from some of the most important museums, libraries and historical archives in the world, this book, written in simple language and accessible even to non-specialist readers, is an amazing journey through the History of Medicine, from its beginnings to the present day, focusing on the Portuguese reality. The work consists of more than one hundred small historical narratives, organized chronologically, which are bound together by setting a global history of medicine. The author begins by an approach to some old medical founding practices of medical rationalism, present in civilizations like the Egyptian, Chinese, Indian and Greek; crosses the Middle Ages, a time marked by the monastic medicine, the Arab medicine and the birth of universities; analyzes the Renaissance period, in which highlights the emergence of modern scientific medicine, the foundation of the Hospital of All Saints and the network of Misericordias; crosses the seventeenth century, in which shows, among many other things, the medicine under the Scientific Revolution and the emergence of nation-states; reflects on the eighteenth century, especially the Pombal reform and the great philosophical and political movements of that time; runs through the nineteenth century, in which we witness the progressive specialization of medicine and the pioneering reforms in the field of public health in Portugal; and the XX and XXI centuries in the techno-scientific development is resulting in unparalleled medical progress that Portugal is actively involved with research and pioneering initiatives in some areas. Ends with a reflection on the future of medicine in advanced globalization era.
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