Dear Dr Figueiredo, Just to answer your question regarding which primary sources I am referring to, I will be happy to guide you through the 19th archives of the India Health Services that exist in the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (please note that they are manuscript and in Portuguese, I hope you are ok with that). Similar documents should exist in Goa (the bureaucrats produced multiple copies, one to send, others to keep); but I never crossed them. Even though there is a wealth of documentation in Goa's archives, many things were lost. For example the archives of the medical school, which I tried to find in loco during my first visit to Goa in 1998, to learn that they had been thrown away as garbage, For many things I, too, relied on secondary sources, trusting fellow historians. For the enrolled students of the medical school, for instance, in the absence of enrollment archives, I relied on Peregrino da Costa, who gathered the data in what seems to be a reliable table. For the nineteenth century, however, I was able to use multiple sources, including the manuscripts of those who actually served in the health services in Goa and in the medical school. Believe me: the picture that emerges is VERY different from the institutional accounts provided by those who wanted to glorify the school and wrote backwards from the twentieth century, Germano Correia above all. It is totally normal that memorialists of medicine in Goa like Correia tried to provide an image of continuity between the early attempts to teach medicine in the early days of Portuguese rule and what later became the Medical School of Goa. However, there are many gaps in that story, and it is a bit of a stretch to see the separate efforts to promote medical teaching in Goa as a unified process. Correia's account, besides having tremendous leaps in time, minimizes two important elements that kept medicine and health going in Goa through the centuries: (a) local (not necessarily ayurvedic) medical practices and knowledge, and (b) the next door neighbors in Bombay, including the East India Company surgeons and physicians. I will stop here for now, as this is not an academic debate - i just answered your question in good faith. best wishes to everyone and thanks to those who have the paciente to read this.
cristiana Cristiana Bastos Institute of Social Sciences | University of Lisbon | Av Anibal Bettencourt, 9 | 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal *https://cristianabastos.org/ <https://cristianabastos.org/>* On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 9:35 PM John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Cristiana, > Thank you for your message. > I do not know what primary sources you are referring to. I have based all > my comments on your publications and sources you cited in your publications > and other sources that are also cited. The secondary sources I cited have > primary sources cited in them. > Likewise I would also be happy to be proven wrong if there is evidence > proving that I am wrong. I also have no vested interest in supporting or > not supporting any ideology. I will have other comments forthcoming and you > may want to wait until I am all done. > With best regards, > Sincerely, > John > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 18, 2023, at 2:53 PM, cristiana bastos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear Dr Figueiredo: > > It is extremely flattering that you are reading my work so closely, and I > thank you for that, despite the fact that you attribute to my person some > intentions and opinions that are quite off the mark. I have no > ideological project and no personal positionality regarding these matters. > I read documents, manuscripts and other sources to come up with my > interpretations, in dialogue with international and state-of-the-art > scholarship, as any scholar should do; if you want to refute them, you are > fully entitled to do so, and I would be very happy to be proven wrong if > you find facts on primary sources. So far, however, your endnotes only > refer to secondary sources, which as you know carry the multiple biases of > their authors. > > Wishing well to you and to all GRNetters, > > cristiana > > Cristiana Bastos > Institute of Social Sciences | University of Lisbon | Av Anibal > Bettencourt, 9 | 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal > *https://cristianabastos.org/ <https://cristianabastos.org/>* > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:20 PM JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Attached is a document with the title "When did the School start?". >> >> Please note that the attached notes are copyrighted. All rights >> reserved. No part of this series of posts may be copied, reproduced or >> transmitted by mechanical, electronic or any other means without my prior >> permission. >> >> The opinions expressed in the attached notes are my own and should not be >> construed as endorsed by Yale University where I teach or any other >> organization to which I belong. >> John M. de Figueiredo >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Goa-Research-Net" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1058818806.873661.1687112380282%40mail.yahoo.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1058818806.873661.1687112380282%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJ_erVO_NF8qvHvU2WjQngdk1F9TCgq6%2BKRyAis4E6wPgv6wxA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJ_erVO_NF8qvHvU2WjQngdk1F9TCgq6%2BKRyAis4E6wPgv6wxA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/BC84EF1E-A636-4F6D-BA83-127758D4F918%40sbcglobal.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/BC84EF1E-A636-4F6D-BA83-127758D4F918%40sbcglobal.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJ_erVPgb%3Drzg4oCWsmjKA%3DhOSkJwKcbsCPu6bMM0zXXKU4Y8A%40mail.gmail.com.
