Pluralismo médico em Portugal no século XIX? Revisitando uma polémica literária quase esquecida
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The text analyzes a literary polemic woven in the mid-nineteenth century in Portugal between an influential politician and some of the most prominent Lisbon physicians, which focused on the scientific and clinical statute of alternative medical systems. The study seeks to portray the clinical universe of the romanticism period, showing the clinical and cultural presence of medical systems such as hydrotherapy, homeopathy, animal magnetism, among other practices. The text also problematizes the medical pluralism of that period, an aspect that is tendentially undervalued in historiographical terms. Finally, it illustrates various strategies of scientific, curricular and institutional marginalization that enabled to banish such practices from universities and historiography itself.
Author: Bruno Barreiros
Institution: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4417330622