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Destaques da Biblioteca de História das Ciências e da Saúde

 

THOMAS, Amanda J. The lambeth cholera outbreak of 1848-1849: the setting, causes, course and aftermath of na epidemic in London. London: McFarland & Company, 2010.

 

  

 This work brings together a unique range of sources to reveal a forgotten episode in London’s history. Situated opposite Westminster on the south bank of the River Thames, by 1848 Lambeth’s waterfront had become London’s industrial center and a magnet to migrant workers. The book exposes the suffering of the working population in the face of apathy and ineptitude, and convincingly challenges the long-standing belief that London’s numerous cholera outbreaks beginning in 1832 were unrelated. The work combines recent scientific research with first-hand accounts to show for the first time that in the nineteenth century cholera was very probably endemic in the River Thames.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

BOSCHI, Caio C. Exercícios de pesquisa histórica. Belo Horizonte: Puc Minas, 2011.

 

  

 

Segundo a Metodologia Científica, problematizar o tema-objeto é o primeiro passo da pesquisa. A produção do conhecimento nasce, assim, do esforço reflexivo dos autores. Para que o processo avance, é imprescindível, no entanto, que se façam a identificação e a coleta das fontes por meio das quais o pesquisador possa verificar e debater a pertinência das questões que previamente se propôs. Na elaboração dos textos que compõem este livro, o autor alia as duas etapas, oferecendo ao leitor não apenas alguns resultados da operação historiográfica, mas, sobretudo, alentadas informações arquivísticas e bibliográficas que facilitam e estimulam a realização de (novos) trabalhos no campo da História.

 

 

 
 

 
 

 

MOONEY, Jadwiga E. Pieper. The politics of motherhood: maternity and women’s rights in twentieth-century. Chile: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

  

 

THE RESEARCH for this book was inspired by experiences on location during my first stay in Santiago in 1993, during almost two years in Chile between 1995 and 1997, and on about nine trips to Santiago between 1998 and 2007. Enrolled in a summer course on "shantytown health care" on my first trip, I was taught by a terrific group of physicians and health-care activists of the Colectivo de Atención Primaria de Salud in Bellavista. I also learned from doctors, policymakers, and female patients who shared their experiences with me and spoke of the problems they encountered in their daily lives. Moved by some of these realities and angered by the lack of power many women have to make autonomous, healthy, and even potentially life-saving decisions about reproduction and motherhood, I decided to examine what I referred to as the “political dimensions of motherhood.” I intimated the analytical questions at the heart of this book in response to my ongoing encounters with differ­ent groups of Chilean women, with physicians and health officials, and with policymakers-all of whom have contributed to the shaping of the politics of motherhood in Chile.

 

 

Aastestad, Petter. The patient as text: the role of the narrator in psychiatric notes, 1890-1990. New York: Radcliffe Publishing, 2009.

  

 

A commonly-held model of the doctor-patient relationship casts it as a subject/object relationship: broadly the patient is a "text", and the doctor the reader or interpreter. However, recent critical models preset notions of text and reader as complex and unstable, and the relationship of doctor and patient as similarly complicated. Explorations of psychiatry and "madness" by critics such as Michel Foucault present a further background of complex ideological change. In The Patient as Text, Petter Aaslestad explores selections from over a century of psychiatric notes from Gaustad Hospital, Norway against this critical background, exploring the impact of ideological and medical changes surrounding the psychiatric clinical relationship and psychiatric professionals as constructors of narratives. How is the patient made audible and visible in the records? The author identifies the possible effects of different narrative techniques, why some are preferred above others, and how the historical context affects the choice of technique, as well as the basic structure of the record itself.

 

 

 

ALBERTI, Samuel J.M.M. Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

 

In the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them. This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismembered corpses and preserved them: transforming bodies into material culture. The fragmented body parts followed complex paths-­harvested from hospital wards, given to one of many prestigious institutions, or dispersed at auction. Human remains acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and were then reintegrated into museums as physical maps of disease. On shelves curators juxtaposed organic remains with paintings, photographs, and models, and rendered them legible with extensive catalogues that were intended to standardize the museum experience. And yet visitors refused to be policed, responding equally with wonder and disgust.

 

 

 

 

CONDRAU, Flurin; Worboys, Michael. Tuberculosis then and now: perspectives on the history of na infectious disease. London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

 

 

  

In Tuberculosis Then and Now leading scholars and new researchers in the field reflect on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engage in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine and how it informs current debates and issues surrounding the treatment of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Through a case study of the history of tuberculosis and its treatment, this collection examines medicine and health care from the perspectives of class, race, and gender, providing a challenging and refreshing addition to the field of bacteria-centred accounts of the history of medicine.

 

 

RAGO, Elisabeth Juliska. Outras falas: feminismo e medicina na Bahia(1836-1931). São Paulo: Annablume, 2007.

 

 

 

Diante da pergunta, quem são vocês, mulheres, às quais se refere este livro, melhor seria fazer como uma personagem de Isak Dinesen. Perguntado, o Cardeal de Últimos Contos, responde: "Permita-me...responder-lhe na forma clássica e contar uma história': Aceitando a sugestão de método da personagem, poderíamos então narrar: “Era uma vez duas Franciscas, a mãe e a filha, que viveram no Recôncavo Baiano, e também na capital, em pleno século XIX, e que se lançaram em entrechoques de monta...:” A pesquisa minuciosa de Elisabeth Juliska Rago, que escavou um século de história e expôs meandros e ramificações sobre mulheres médicas e feminismos na Bahia, durante aquele período, segue o modelo narrativo da ciência histórica. A autora nos oferece fragmentos ordenados do passado, que dão vigor a pensamentos novos. Esta é uma publicação importante não só pela pesquisa primorosa, mas também porque facilita a transmissão de história de bravas mulheres, uma forma de memória que há de iluminar nossa identidade presente.

 

 

DAVIES, E.Brian. Why Beliefs Matter: reflections on the nature of science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

 

 

In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that 'absolutist' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of both theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world, but because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular and exceptional status that it has been assigned, as much by those who understand it as by those who do not. Working throughout from direct quotations from many of the important contributors to its subject, it concludes with a penetrating criticism of many of the recent contributions to the often acrimonious debates about science and religions.

 

 

 

 

 

EMERY, Alan E.H; EMERY, Márcia L.H. The History of a Genetic Disease: duchenne muscular dystrophy or meryon’s disease. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

 

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males with an incidence of around one in 3,500 new-born baby boys. Its relentless progress is characterized by loss of the ability to walk by the age of 10 or 11, leading to a wheelchair life, and death from cardiac and respiratory problems usually around the late teens or early twenties. Edward Meryon (1807-1880), was the first person to give a full and detailed clinical description of what later became known as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His research identified many facets of the condition which we now take for granted; for example, it only affects males, it is inherited through females, and it is a disease of the muscle system. Until recently, Meryon has not been given credit for his contribution to the subject. In this book, the history of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is traced in detail, with full references and informative, historically relevant illustrations.

 

 

 

 

 

CARLINO, Andréa; WENGER, Alexandre. Littérature et médecine: approches et perspectives (XVI-XIX). Genève: Libraire Droz S.A, 2007.

 

 

Les enjeux esthétiques et scientifiques d'une époque sont souvent étroitement liés. Littérature et médecine montre la pertinence d'une lecture croisée, attentive à la formalisation du discours médical aussi bien qu'aux opérations d'appro­priation du savoir médical par la fiction. Précédées par une introduction théorique, les contributions éditées par Andrea Carlino et Alexandre Wenger démontrent l'intérêt de décloi­sonner les champs culturels de la médecine et de la littérature depuis le XVI^e jusqu'au XIX^e siècle: posture auctorale et humaniste du médecin­écrivain, rhétorique des textes médicaux selon qu’il s'agisse de traités ou de manuels, littérarité des doctrines médicales, pathographies des gens de lettres, appropriation de la médecine et de la maladie dans les oeuvres de fiction sont autant de sujets abordés, qui ébranlent respectivement la doctrine des «deux cultures».

 

 

 

 

WEAVER, John C. A Sadly Troubled History: the meanings of suicide in the modern age. London: University Press Montreal & Kingston, 2009.

 

 

 

More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. In a study of nearly 7,000 suicides from 1900 to 1950, John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinary people experienced during turbulent times and, using witnesses' testimony. death bed statements, and suicide notes. reconstructs individuais' thoughts as they decide whether or not to endure their suffering. Bridging social and medical history. Weaver presents an intellectual and political history of suicide studies. He also provides a revealing construction and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of gender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoning processes and intent, and an analysis of society's reactions to suicide, including medical intervention.

 

HAMLIN, Christopher. Cholera: the biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

 

 

 

CHOLERA WAS THE SCOURGE of the 19th century, sweeping repeatedly across the globe, often killing its victims within a few hours. It still threatens today wherever the barriers of sanitation are weak-most recently in Zimbabwe. From the ancient concept of cholera to the first pandemic of the 1820S, Christopher Hamlin tracks the response to the discovery of a new south Asian disease that spread rapidly across continents and oceans. The horror of cholera transformed notions of class and race; fear of it reshaped local and national governments, relations of colonizer and colony, east and west, north and south. It also played a central role in determining the course of modern biomedicine - in epidemiology through John Snow's famous maps, in bacteriology, in clinical medicine, and in sciences ranging from pathology to ecology. Hamlin concludes with the status of cholera today: a case of multi­disciplinary environmental science, NGOs and global health monitoring, the vaccine industry, and unequal rights to sanitation.

 

 

 

 

 

FERNANDES, Maria Célia. Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: a travessia da “arca grande e boa” na história carioca. Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 2011.

 

 

O leitor encontrará, neste primeiro exercício reflexivo sobre as quase doze décadas do AGCRJ, enquanto uma instituição do poder municipal de uma cidade/Capital como o Rio de Janeiro, um mergulho nos “quilômetros lineares” de documentos, para usar uma expressão dos arquivistas. Ou seja, um cotejar com o que existiu de latente, porque produzido na contemporaneidade dos fatos. O texto deste livro, não obstante, pode ser apreendido do mesmo modo, como um depoimento a posteriori, mas não é, espero, um vestígio induzido, consciente e voluntário do passado.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DYCK, Érika; FLETCHER, Christopher. Locating Health: historical and anthropological investigations of health and place. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

 

 

Health and place are profoundly entwined in culture and over time. The experience of health is formed, nurtured, lived and denied in a surrounding environment. People everywhere seek out places that provide the right conditions for good health. The meanings attributed to health or illness are socially constructed, contested and shaped by powerful forces, providing an interesting arena for study. The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented, with each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. Through diverse examples and perspectives, the resulting contributions offer new conceptual and methodological insights, enhancing both fields.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONNOR, J.T.H; CURTIS, Stephan. Medecine in the remote and rural north, 1800-2000. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

 

 

 

The North’ is more than just a geographicaI area. It is a place of cold and hardship on the one hand and of welcome solitude and opportunity on the other - a place requiring adaptation and compromise. The medical practitioners responsible for providing health care to the populations of these regions endured the daiIy hardships of surviving in such an inhospitable environment and had the added burden of negotiating between different cultures. They represented the state and external authority and brought new innovations to previously isolated communities. This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous themes and topics are raised that are relevant not only to a discussion of how medicine was practised in rural and remote areas of the recent past, but also to current attempts to improve medical care in more isolated regions of the world.

 

 

 

 

 

LUCA, Tânia Regina de. Leituras, projetos e Revistas do Brasil (1916-1944). São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2011.

 

 

Este livro, de maneira inédita e ex­tensiva, analisa a marcante carreira da Revista do Brasil, publicação de impor­tância crucial na história da imprensa paulistana e brasileira. Na considera­ção das diferentes fases desse perió­dico ilustre são discutidos os desafios que enfrentou e o complexo universo de ideias em que se moviam seus edi­tores e colaboradores.