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)
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 BastosInstitute of Social Sciences | University of Lisbon | Av Anibal Bettencourt, 9 | 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal
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