Open AccessHigiene e conservação da saúde no pensamento médico luso-brasileiro do século XVIII
Author(s) -
Jean Luiz Neves Abreu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asclepio
Language(s) - Portuguese
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1988-3102
pISSN - 0210-4466
DOI - 10.3989/asclepio.2010.v62.i1.303
Subject(s) - appropriation , context (archaeology) , enlightenment , period (music) , humanities , hygiene , political science , health care , history , medicine , art , philosophy , law , aesthetics , theology , epistemology , archaeology , pathology
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.