Many thanks to John de Figueiredo for his chain of articles on the Escola Medica. Even I who knew nothing of this institution except by name, was absorbed in the contents.
Roland Francis Toronto. > On Dec 31, 2023, at 1:33 AM, John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Cristiana, > It was never my intention to insult you and nothing I wrote should be > interpreted as such. > Happy New Year to you and all members of GRN. > John > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Dec 30, 2023, at 3:46 PM, cristiana bastos <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> Dear GRNetters, >> >> Accept wishes for a wonderful New Year. >> >> I am delighted to know that Dr Figueiredo's mission of dismissing my work >> is now completed and we can move on. Unfortunately, I have not had the time >> to read the fascicles thoroughly and respond to them as most came out while >> I was under surgery and post-surgery treatments; but now I am well and will >> be happy to read and reply to some of the challenges. From my quite diagonal >> browsing of some pages, I see that some of Dr Figueiredo's comments are >> sound and potentially useful to the knowledge of this subject, as they >> assemble complementar information; others, not so much; many of them are >> speculative and judgemental, and some are plain insult -- which I am sure >> was not meant by the author, whom, to the best of my knowledge, is a >> gentleman and a highly educated person, albeit not trained in history and in >> the art, the science and the labor of interpreting sources. >> >> I will be more than happy to respond to Dr Figueiredo's specific questions >> and debate on matters that I may contribute to -- Public Health in 19th >> century Goa, the politics/medicine nexus, the inner works of Portuguese >> imperial governance, etc. Even though I occasionally entered into the 17th >> and 18th centuries (to better understand the health care system of which the >> royal hospital was part of), and also occasionally into the 20th century >> (e.g. the biography of Dr Froilano de Melo, for which I used multiple >> sources including interviewing his now deceased sons Victor and Alfredo), >> I remain focused on the 19th century and the early 20th. I am certainly no >> specialist in the 20th century - Goa or otherwise -- and I do not have the >> embodied knowledge of having lived in Goa; not in any form or manner am I >> competing for who knows Goa and things Goan better, 20th century or other. >> My task is way more modest -- approach a particular society (19th century >> colonial Goa) using the analytical lenses of the social sciences, in >> dialogue with scholarly literature (the ones I quote in my articles), and >> focus on one of its institutions, the Medical School, to better understand >> the workings of empire and the actual complexity of local agency and local >> lives. To be honest, my early goal, when I started with this project in >> 1997/8, had been to study colonial medicine with a critical view on the >> Portuguese empire at wide. But from the moment when at the NYU library I >> found a collection of Arquivos da Escola Medico-Cirúrgica -- a scientific >> journal published in Goa by Goan doctors and pharmacists-- Goa was meant to >> take the lead, and in fact it took not just the lead but the entire task -- >> I ended up focusing almost exclusively on Goa and left other sites for >> another time or another life -- actually for other scholars, as I moved on >> in my research interests and most of my work now is on plantation labor, not >> on the history of medicine or public health. For those who wonder, here: >> http://colour.ics.ulisboa.pt/publications/ and here >> https://cristianabastos.org. >> >> I have not worked with Goa for a while; however, there was a book project >> interrupted which had been sitting for a long time and got refreshed during >> the pandemic. It counts on a number of stellar young and less young scholars >> with serious hands-on research. I had the honor of pushing the cart, but the >> merit is theirs. I invite all of those who can read Portuguese to check it >> out: Medicina e Império em Goa - do conhecimento das plantas à biopolítica >> colonial (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2022) >> >> <image.png> >> >> Introdução Medicina e império em Goa: uma introdução . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . . . . 15 Cristiana Bastos >> Capítulo 1 Os diálogos de Orta e Ruano sobre as frutas e legumes do Oriente: >> os testemunhos de uma outra face da Ásia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . 31 Teresa Nobre de Carvalho >> Capítulo 2 «Esperiencias das hervas orientaes»: um inventário quinhentista >> de materia medica indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . . . 59 Oana Baboi >> Capítulo 3 Técnicas terapêuticas nativas da Índia utilizadas nas >> instituições médicas coloniais portuguesas de Goa, Damão e Diu (1680-1830) . >> . 89 Timothy Walker >> Capítulo 4 As ordens religiosas e a construção de uma medicina europeia >> aplicada aos trópicos: a ação da Companhia de Jesus a partir de Goa 123 >> Fabiano Bracht >> Capítulo 5 Segredos, orientalismo e botânica médica em Goa, c.1840-1930 . . >> . . 145 Ricardo Roque >> Capítulo 6 Instituições coloniais e processos locais no governo da saúde em >> Goa: hospitais, físicos-mores, Escola Médica e saúde pública . 187 Cristiana >> Bastos >> Capítulo 7 Goa perante a varíola: saberes concorrentes, poderes ambíguos e >> práticas conjugadas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . . . 235 Cristiana Bastos >> Capítulo 8 A lanceta contra a deusa: vacina antivariólica e variolização em >> Goa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Mónica Saavedra >> Capítulo 9 Goa perante a cólera e a peste: epidemias, conhecimento médico e >> políticas sanitárias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . . . . 287 Cristiana Bastos e Mónica Saavedra >> Capítulo 10 Saúde pública, contextos coloniais e actores locais no século >> xx: o controlo da doença de Hansen na Índia Portuguesa . . . . . . . . . . . >> 329 Mónica Saavedra >> >> >> I hope you can enjoy it >> >> wishes of a wonderful New Year >> >> cristiana >> >> >> >> Cristiana Bastos >> Institute of Social Sciences | University of Lisbon | Av Anibal Bettencourt, >> 9 | 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal >> https://cristianabastos.org/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 5:46 PM JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Attached please fnd the final document of this series of posts titled "The >>> First Goan Directors, the Centennial, the Historians of the School, and the >>> End of the School". >>> Please note that the attached notes are copyrighted. 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