1. [Hygiene and health preservation in the Luso-Brazilian medicine of the 18th century].
- Author
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Neves Abreu JL
- Subjects
- Brazil ethnology, History, 18th Century, Human Characteristics, Humans, Indians, South American education, Indians, South American ethnology, Indians, South American history, Indians, South American legislation & jurisprudence, Indians, South American psychology, Portugal ethnology, Social Change history, Social Conditions history, Anthropology, Cultural education, Anthropology, Cultural history, History of Medicine, Human Body, Hygiene education, Hygiene history, Public Health education, Public Health history
- Abstract
The present article analyzes the problematic of hygiene in the Luso-Brazilian medicine during the second half of 18th century. The chosen context to analysis is related to the changes of medical thought in Portugal along the period related to the appropriation of medical theories that circulated around the Enlightenment Europe. Besides, this paper approaches the ideas presented in medicine treatises of that time related to body care and health conservation, calling attention to the central role of hygiene along that period.
- Published
- 2010
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