Casa de Oswaldo Cruz

O asilo e a cidade: histórias da Colônia Juliano Moreira.

Medical Lives & scientific Medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969.

La ciudad impura: salud, tuberculosis y cultura em Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

Knowledge in the time of Cholera: the struggle over American medicine in the nineteenth century.

HOWELL, Joel D. Technology in the hospital: transforming patient care in the early twentieth century. Baltimore; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

How did use of medical technology such as urinalyses, blood tests, and x-ray machines change patient care in early-twentieth-century American hospitals? To what extent was the use of new machines influenced by the ideas of scientific medicine and to what extent by the availability of newly structured facilities and trained personnel? Drawing on the medical treatment of more than 2,000 people as reflected in patient records from Pennsylvania and New York hospitals, Joel D. Howell traces the ways in which medical technology was used, not merely how it was talked about. He utilizes a wide range of sources – Including medical texts, popular literature, the visual arts, and the voices of both opponents and proponents of innovation-to explore how technology came to be such a central feature of medical care. Howell also shows how changes in medical practice raised issues of gender, culture, and economics.  (Au.)

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

SALLES, Sandra Abrahão Chaim. Homeopatia, Universidade e Sus: resistências e aproximações. São Paulo: Aderaldo & Rothschild; FAPESP, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Este sistema médico denominado homeopatia nunca abandonou a estratégia do diálogo, sobretudo, claro, através da polêmica (mas também através da convivência, muitas vezes contestada pelos próprios partidários), no sentido de encontrar sua legitimação no contexto da medicina científica. Este "diálogo" se deu não apenas através da pesquisa, como na busca do espaço da atenção à saúde, e do ensino. Do ponto de vista mais abrangente pode-se dizer que a cuidadosa e elaborada pesquisa de tese de Sandra Chaim sobre este diálogo acrescenta vários elementos de informação, análise e reflexão ao capítulo contemporâneo da estratégia de convivência desses dois sistemas, tão claramente ocidentais, embora tão divergentes. Este trabalho traz sobretudo a originalidade inovadora, no campo homeopático, de tomar como objeto de análise nesta convivência o "outro irmão" (a alteridade sublinhada pela autora em seu texto introdutório), isto é, a biomedicina, através dos (bio)médicos que têm contato com a homeopatia. (Au.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

MOSCOSO, Javier. Historia Cultural del dolor. Madrid: Taurus Historia, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

EI dolor, que la mayor parte de las veces carece de justificación, posee sin embargo una historia. Los gestos de las vírgenes mártires, las burlas que acompañaron las desventuras de don Quijote, las penitencias que tuvieron lugar, a escondidas, en el interior de los conventos, las pequeñas comedias del masoquismo sexual, el teatro anatómico del Mundo Moderno, las muecas de los pacientes anestesiados, los dolores conscientes del trastorno nervioso o los inconscientes de la enfermedad mental, se dan cita en este libro. AI contrario de lo que afirmaba el filósofo Cioran, para quien era imposible dialogar con el dolor físico, todas y cada una de estas páginas abogan por ese encuentro y potencian ese diálogo. A medio camino entre la historia y la filosofía, este ensayo versa sobre las formas sucesivas (que no progresivas) de materialización de la experiencia del daño, sobre las modalidades artísticas, jurídicas o científicas que han permitido, desde el Renacimiento hasta nuestros días, la comprensión cultural del sufrimiento humano. La representación, la simpatía, la imitación, pero también la coherencia, la confianza o la narratividad son algunos de los recursos retóricos y argumentativos que los hombres y las mujeres hemos ido utilizando, y todavía usamos, para sentir nuestro dolor, pero también para expresarlo y dotarlo de significado y valor colectivo. (Au.).

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

    

THOMPSON, Paul. The voice of the past: oral history. 3. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

In the ten years since I first wrote this book much has happened. The work which was then starting has resulted in some out-standing published history. We have moved forward in our understanding of the complexity of the memory process and the interpretation of oral sources. We have watched a vigorous spread of local community projects, and the rise of new movements in adult literacy, drama, and reminiscence therapy. We have learnt more about the past of oral history. We have developed firmer links with life-story sociology, and we have joined together to form an international community of oral historians. All these developments are reflected in this new edition. In particular, I have expanded the first three chapters on history and the community, historians and oral history, and the achievement of oral history; I have introduced a new discussion of 'subjectivity', psychoanalysis, and memory as therapy in a rewritten chapter on evidence and a new chapter on memory and the self; and I have rewritten and expanded the final chapter on interpretation. (Au.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

BRESLAW, Elaine G. Lotions, potions, pills, and magic: health care in early America. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

The writing of this book was a collaborative process. Except in a few instances, the original research supporting my conclusions is based on the more detailed investigations of other scholars. Many of those students of history and medicine who contributed important data are probably unaware of their significance for this work. They are, however, acknowledged in the bibliographic essays that accompany each chapter. Like most historians, I am eternally grateful for such scholarship and hope that I have given sufficient credit to those studies and have not distorted any conclusions. [...]The idea for this book began during the bicentennial celebration of the mid-1970S when I prepared a course on Health in Early America at Morgan State University. It was subsequently offered at Johns Hopkins University and attracted students preparing for medical degrees. Questions and comments from students stimulated more thought and consideration on the role of medical care on the status of health before modern medicine. Other friends and colleagues continued to express an interest in the subject and encouraged the writing of a book on the state of health and medical care in early America. (Au.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARWOOD, Jonathan. Styles of scientific thought: the german genetics community 1900-1933. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ln this first extended study of German genetics, Jonathan Harwood demonstrates that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method but that there are national styles of science. Through detailed historical and sociological comparisons of German and American scientific traditions, Harwood reveals how German culture and social values shaped a unique and unusually broad theoretical approach to genetics in the early part of this century. Harwood looks at academic and research institutions, the educational backgrounds of geneticists, and national norms to discover why German biologists were much more interested in development and evolution than were their American counterparts.  (Au.)