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Destaques da Biblioteca de História das Ciências e da Saúde

UEYAMA, Takahiro. Health in the marketplace: professionalism, therapeutic desires, and medical commodification in late-Victorian London. Palo Alto: The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2010.
 

 

Much like consumers today, late 19th century Londoners lived in a mass culture of commodified abundance and conspicuous consumption. Their consumer fetishism was fully represented by their avid pursuit of health related services and medicinal goods the market was rife with brand-name patent medicines such as Dr. Scott's Little Liver Pills and Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People, and city-dwellers frequently bought patented medico-electrical appliances such as Pulvermacher's Electric Chains or Harness' Electropathic Belt.In this highly original book Takahiro Ueyama recounts a vivid narrative populated by long-forgotten entrepreneurs and charlatans - that accounts for the way in which socioeconomic and professional interests came into conflict among medically trained doctors, electrical engineers, manufacturers of patent medicines, and quack physicians.Thoroughly grounded in research into health commodification in the late 19th century, this book demonstrates that Victorians had issues very much like ours today. Like us, they wrestled with ambiguities about drug effectiveness and regulation. Like us, they worried about the uncertain boundaries between science and quackery. They, too, were baffled by the competing claims of orthodox and alternative medicine. They, too, went in for massage therapy and erotic quasi-medical services. Such was reality in late 19th century Britain, and it was the root of what we observe in our highly capitalized modern world, where profit-driven commercialism ubiquitously intrudes into the medical domain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges. Invenção da histeria: Charcot e a iconografia fotográfica da Salpêtrière. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2015.

 

 

 

 

No último terço do século XIX, a Salpêtrière foi o que sempre tinha sido: uma espécie de inferno feminino, uma 'città' dolorosa que encerrava 4 mil mulheres incuráveis ou loucas. Um pesadelo em Paris, bem perto da sua belle époque. Foi precisamente lá que Charcot redescobriu a histeria. Como? Tentamos descrevê-lo aqui, em meio a todos os procedimentos clínicos e experimentais, através da hipnose e das espetaculares apresentações de doentes em crise no anfiteatro das célebres "aulas das terças-feiras". O que as histéricas da Salpêtrière exibiam de seus corpos decorria de uma extraordinária conivência entre médicos e pacientes. Uma relação de desejos, olhares e saberes. É isto que interrogamos. Restam-nos hoje as séries de imagens da Iconografia fotográfica da Salpêtrière. Está tudo ali: poses, crises, gritos, "atitudes passionais", "crucificações", "êxtases", todas as posturas do delírio. [...] Mas o movimento sempre exagerado de encantamento produziu uma situação paradoxa: na medida em que a histérica se deixava livremente reinventar e ser cada vez mais colocada em imagens, uma dor como que se ia agravando. Num dado momento, o encanto se rompeu e o consentimento transformou-se em ódio. É essa virada que interrogamos aqui. Freud foi uma testemunha desorientada dessa imensa discussão da histeria a portas fechadas e dessa fabricação de imagens. Sua desorientação não há de ter sido insignificante para os primórdios da psicanálise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

BUFFINGTON, Robert M.; LUIBHÉID, Eithne; GUY, Donna J. A global history of sexuality: the modern era. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

  

 

Explores what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals over the last 200 years. Organized around four major themes: the formation of sexual identity, the regulation of sexuality by societal norms, the regulation of sexuality by institutions, and the intersection of sexuality with globalization. Examines the topic from a comparative, global perspective, with well-chosen case studies to illuminate the broader themes. Includes interdisciplinary contributions from prominent historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and sexuality studies scholars. Introduces important theoretical concepts in a clear, accessible way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASSELL, Ronald D. Medical charities, medical politics: the Irish dispensary system and the poor law, 1836-1872. Woodbridge: The Royal Historical Society, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

This book examines the dispensary system and Irish health policy and administration in general, focusing upon the Medical Charities Act of 1851, which placed medical relief under the control of the Irish Poor Law Commission. The Commission's record with regard to epidemic control, vaccination, and its effort to create a comprehensive health care system, are examined in detail, together with pre-famine medical charities it replaced and the reorganised poor law system, taking the story through to 1872.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MELLANBY, Kenneth. The DDT story. Surrey: British Crop Protection Council, 1992.

 

 

  

 

This books opens with a biographical chapter on Paul Müller, the Nobel Laureate who first synthesised DDTG and pioneered its many uses. This is followed by chapters reviewing the whole range of DDT uses in agriculture and forestry, hygiene and medicine, and the ecological effects. The toxicity of DDT, its persistence in the environment and the development of resistance by some insect pests are also covered as well as prospects for the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MACHADO, Ubiratan. A capa do livro brasileiro 1820-1950. Cotia; São Paulo: Ateliê Editorial; Sesi-SP, 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

História e memória se enlaçam nessa trama riquíssima e complexa que constitui a arte da capa no Brasil, feita por brasileiros, mas também por algumas figuras ímpares que fizeram desse país sua morada. E que tentaram, também eles, exprimir esse "arrepio da terra". Por fim, é preciso dizer que esse livro encerra uma história da capa brasileira em sua forma mais bem acabada. Mas ele constitui também, como matéria bruta, uma série de outras histórias apenas enunciadas, à espera de outros narradores, de novos desfechos (Marisa Deaecto).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

GRINNELL, George C. The age of hypochondria: interpreting romantic health and illness. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  

 

What if the experience of hypochondria was not simply one of imagined infirmity? In an age in which health was increasingly policied in terms of moral as well as physical well-being, writers at the turn of the nineteenth century viewed hypochondria as a malady and a metaphor for the difficulty of discerning health in the body. As a troubling laceration in normalizing efforts to determine the body as either ideally healthy or improperly sick, hypochondria mediated a range of social and political concerns and became a figure of interpretation for the ways in which the corporeal body elludes our efforts to know it. The Age of Hypochondria examines several episodes of hypochondria, in works by Thomas Beddoes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Mary Prince, in order to suggest why fictions of health - and obsessions with disease - may have become so pervasive in the Romantic era.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRAVEN, Louise (Ed.). What are Archives?: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: a reader. London: Routledge, 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first chapter gives an overview of the shifting landscape and higlights some of its significant trends. In the second theme, the impact of technology, the author consider the impact which digitalization has made upon archives and archivists from two very differents standpoints. The third theme - impact of community archives - looks at the use of cyberspace by different communities and groups and in the final chapter are treating about the archival use and users, it shows very different standpoints asks who they are and what we know about them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHNS, Adrian. The nature of the book: print and knowledge in the making. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

 

 

  

 

This book discusses the differences between the book of nature and the nature of the book. It dialogues about the relation between the culture and credibility of the printed book in early modern London. Its argues about the advancement of whole some knowledge in relation to the politics of print and the practices of property, the republicanism, natural knowledge, and the politics of printing. Others themes presents in this book are the cultural construction of the printing revolution, print and the passions of the physiology of reading, the natural philosophy in the restoration and histories of the heavens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PONS, Frank Moya. History of the Caribbean: plantation, trade, and war in the Atlantic World. Princeton: M. Wiener, 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

The preceding narrative summarizes in essence the contents of this book: the economic and social evolution of the Caribbean as an organic entity, and its functional integration in to the Atlantic economy. To accompplish the goal of describing the the structural uniformity of the Caribbean, the author have had to focus the narrative on some basic variables: production, trade, immigration, demography, and war, leaving aside many other important aspects of the region's social and cultural evolution, for example, the particular history of the slave trade and the lives of slaves above and beyond their functions as economic actors.