Pub Date : 2020-11-17DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2020.19
C. Pereira, Diogo Guedes Vidal
This work aims to analyse the genesis, dynamics and functionalities of the Antonio Almeida da Costa Asylum, founded at the beginning of the 20th century in Vila Nova de Gaia, in northern Portugal, in the elderly assistance, initially funded for the elderly workers of the industrial complex of Ceramics and Foundry of Devesas, and in their punctual initiative: the transformation into a hospital for the Typhosos when the epidemic occurred in the city. To meet these objectives, a historical reconstruction exercise was carried out through the benemerit acquis, in particular, based on the minutes of the administrative committee, in internal regulations and statutes and also in the book of invalids hospitalized in the Asylum. Based on the information found, it was possible to describe the institution’s dynamics in the assistance to the elderly, especially in the place of the Devesas in Vila Nova de Gaia, framing the important contribution of it in the public cause of the fight against the exanthematic typhus epidemic.
这项工作旨在分析Antonio Almeida da Costa收容所的起源、动态和功能，该收容所成立于20世纪初，位于葡萄牙北部的Vila Nova de Gaia，最初是为Devesas陶瓷和铸造厂工业综合体的老年工人提供资金，并在他们的及时倡议中:当城市发生流行病时，转变为台风医院。为了实现这些目标，通过既得利益制度，特别是根据行政委员会的记录、内部规章和章程以及在精神病院住院的残疾人名册，进行了历史重建工作。根据所找到的资料，可以描述该机构在援助老年人方面的动态，特别是在加亚新城区的德维萨夫妇处的动态，说明该机构在防治传染性斑疹伤寒的公共事业中所作的重要贡献。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2020.01
Axel C. Hüntelmann
After a smallpox epidemic in Germany in the early 1870s in the wake of the Franco-German War, smallpox vaccination became compulsory by Imperial Law in 1874. The act was hotly debated in parliament and in public and earlier resistance against vaccination developed into a political anti-vaccination movement. For this reason, the German government adopted a number of safety measures. The current article describes, firstly, vaccination practices, regulations and policies in the German states up to the 1870s and the biopolitical developments that led to the Imperial Law on compulsory smallpox vaccination in 1874. Secondly, the article sketches the public debate and critique regarding vaccination asking why compulsory vaccination succeeded in Germany. The article describes the measures implemented by the German government to promote compulsory vaccination and acceptance of the Imperial Law: initially, smallpox vaccines were manufactured by state-run production sites and supervised by local authorities. Empire-wide statistics were collated documenting the success of vaccination as well as related side-effects. From a government perspective, these precautions could be interpreted as a technology of trust.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2020.06
César Leyton Robinson
Based on two essential texts by Chilean doctor Augusto Orrego Luco – La cuestion social (The Social Question, 1897) and his Discurso de toma de posesion de su cargo de presidente de la Sociedad Medica (Speech on taking up his position as president of the Medical Society, 1895) – we analyse this author’s proposals regarding the role of science in governing populations. The analysis focuses on concepts such as the vagabond race in relation to the social and racial question in late-19th-century Chile, and identifies scientific influences such as biological determinism and the theory of degeneracy.
{"title":"El Gobierno de las poblaciones: Augusto Orrego Luco y la Cuestión Social en Chile","authors":"César Leyton Robinson","doi":"10.3989/asclepio.2020.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2020.06","url":null,"abstract":"Based on two essential texts by Chilean doctor Augusto Orrego Luco – La cuestion social (The Social Question, 1897) and his Discurso de toma de posesion de su cargo de presidente de la Sociedad Medica (Speech on taking up his position as president of the Medical Society, 1895) – we analyse this author’s proposals regarding the role of science in governing populations. The analysis focuses on concepts such as the vagabond race in relation to the social and racial question in late-19th-century Chile, and identifies scientific influences such as biological determinism and the theory of degeneracy.","PeriodicalId":44082,"journal":{"name":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83403532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2020.12
Lina Rocío Medina Muñoz
The objective of present article is to discuss the conventional dichotomous view which distinguishes between traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge by providing a comprehensive picture of the complex techniques used to sail the rivers in the Andean world. The materials, fools and navigation practices used by indigenous are described right away, and the author tries to make the tacit knowledge rooted in this technical culture visible. Afterward, it works explains how the early Spanish technologies was adapted in the American context and shows that the use of the indigenous navigation techniques was a crucial factor for the success of the European domination project. It argues that when considering the mutual flows of knowledge and the technological hybridizations arising from the encounter between both civilizations, it cannot be justified the inferiorization of traditional knowledge with respect to scientific knowledge.
{"title":"Maestros de la navegación: el dominio técnico de la movilidad fluvial en el mundo andino","authors":"Lina Rocío Medina Muñoz","doi":"10.3989/asclepio.2020.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2020.12","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of present article is to discuss the conventional dichotomous view which distinguishes between traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge by providing a comprehensive picture of the complex techniques used to sail the rivers in the Andean world. The materials, fools and navigation practices used by indigenous are described right away, and the author tries to make the tacit knowledge rooted in this technical culture visible. Afterward, it works explains how the early Spanish technologies was adapted in the American context and shows that the use of the indigenous navigation techniques was a crucial factor for the success of the European domination project. It argues that when considering the mutual flows of knowledge and the technological hybridizations arising from the encounter between both civilizations, it cannot be justified the inferiorization of traditional knowledge with respect to scientific knowledge.","PeriodicalId":44082,"journal":{"name":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91118732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.19
Víctor Manuel Núñez García, María Luisa Calero Delgado, Encarnación Bernal Borrego
The article presents a first analysis about healthcare in the Spanish Court during the 19th century. Emphasis will be placed on issues such as the structure and organization of such assistance in the Palace, the court doctors from a sociological perspective and the role and potential influence of outstanding chamber doctors. Some men who, for their closeness and direct professional contact with the Monarch, could handle easily in the courtly networks of power and the social relationships in the most exclusive space of mid-19th century Madrid: the Court. In this regard, the illustratives cases of Pedro Castello Ginesta and Tomas del Corral y Ona stand out. All this from an interdisciplinary approach under the imbrication of methodological elements from the history of medicine and the new political history.
本文首次对19世纪西班牙宫廷的医疗保健进行了分析。重点将放在诸如宫中这种援助的结构和组织、从社会学角度看宫廷医生以及杰出的宫廷医生的作用和潜在影响等问题上。有些人，由于与君主的密切和直接的职业接触，可以轻松地处理宫廷权力网络和社会关系，在19世纪中叶马德里最独特的空间:宫廷。在这方面，Pedro Castello Ginesta和Tomas del Corral y Ona的典型案例尤为突出。所有这些都是在医学史和新政治史的方法论元素的交织下，通过跨学科的方法进行的。
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Pub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.16
Carmen Ortíz García
The so-called Pacific Expedition (1862-1866) was the last of the great transoceanic expeditions organized by Spain in the nineteenth century and is well known thanks to the studies of several scholars. Less has been investigated on the vicissitudes after his arrival in Spain of the human remains and ethnographic collections gathered during the trip. In addition to other skeletal remains, mainly skulls, a series of mummies were brought to Spain, along with their grave goods, from the archaeological site of Chiu-Chiu (Bolivia, now Chile) by Manuel Almagro in 1864. This article is dedicated to reconstruct as thoroughly as possible the history of these collections in different museums and the studies that were undertaken on them.
{"title":"Las colecciones de restos humanos de la expedición del Pacífico y los museos españoles","authors":"Carmen Ortíz García","doi":"10.3989/asclepio.2019.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2019.16","url":null,"abstract":"The so-called Pacific Expedition (1862-1866) was the last of the great transoceanic expeditions organized by Spain in the nineteenth century and is well known thanks to the studies of several scholars. Less has been investigated on the vicissitudes after his arrival in Spain of the human remains and ethnographic collections gathered during the trip. In addition to other skeletal remains, mainly skulls, a series of mummies were brought to Spain, along with their grave goods, from the archaeological site of Chiu-Chiu (Bolivia, now Chile) by Manuel Almagro in 1864. This article is dedicated to reconstruct as thoroughly as possible the history of these collections in different museums and the studies that were undertaken on them.","PeriodicalId":44082,"journal":{"name":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80473524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.23
Juan Atenza Fernández, Rubén Mirón González, Benito Díaz Díaz
This work aims to comprehensively analyse the effects of the Spanish civil war on the population and the sanitary services of Talavera de la Reina, a key city in the development of the contest due to its geographic location between Andalusia Western, Extremadura and Madrid. To this end, he has worked with documentation of the Municipal Archives of Talavera de la Reina, the archive of the secondary Centre of Rural hygiene in Talavera de la Reina, the Provincial historical archive of Toledo and the military general archive of Avila. First, appears the Group of five military hospitals that operated in the city, its organization and activity, reconstructed from different models used chips. Preventive activity is analysed from two points of view, the orders emanating from the military authority, with a focus on hygiene, food and prevention of infectious diseases, and the actions carried out by the local authorities, centred ensure a proper water supply and waste collection. In addition, exposed the unhealthy situation in prisons in the city, is a clear example of the State of the health of the moment.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.21
José Antonio Maya González, Ana Laura Zavala Díaz
In the summer of 1883, the writer, miner, scientist and follower of spiritism Pedro Castera (1846-1906) was detained at the Hospital de San Hipolito for demented men in Mexico City. The confinement and isolation of the also poet aroused heated debates and disputes surrounding his mental condition. The reasons for his internment and the conjectures about the psychopathology that afflicted him were crucial within the narrative of a case in which political intrigues, family suspicions, medical controversies and literary conventions converged. The aim of the present work is to analyze the medical valuations around the confinement, permanence and exit of Pedro Castera in and from the hospital, as well as to reflect on the resignification of the figure of the literary-madman from the emergence of the discourse of mental medicine in the context of Porfirian modernity.
{"title":"El caso del escritor Pedro Castera: entre la esfera pública, el campo literario y la experiencia manicomial en el México de finales del siglo XIX","authors":"José Antonio Maya González, Ana Laura Zavala Díaz","doi":"10.3989/asclepio.2019.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2019.21","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 1883, the writer, miner, scientist and follower of spiritism Pedro Castera (1846-1906) was detained at the Hospital de San Hipolito for demented men in Mexico City. The confinement and isolation of the also poet aroused heated debates and disputes surrounding his mental condition. The reasons for his internment and the conjectures about the psychopathology that afflicted him were crucial within the narrative of a case in which political intrigues, family suspicions, medical controversies and literary conventions converged. The aim of the present work is to analyze the medical valuations around the confinement, permanence and exit of Pedro Castera in and from the hospital, as well as to reflect on the resignification of the figure of the literary-madman from the emergence of the discourse of mental medicine in the context of Porfirian modernity.","PeriodicalId":44082,"journal":{"name":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89680634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-25DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.17
F. Pelayo
The cultural and scientific buildings of Madrid were severely damaged by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Madrid was a city besieged and bombed by the rebels. In the capital were the most important museums, the National Library and the main scientific and humanities institutions, where the most important researchers of the time worked. At the beginning of the war the confiscation of libraries and collections of natural sciences took place in palaces and buildings belonging to aristocrats, financiers, people opposed to the Republic and religious schools. The naturalists of the National Institute of Natural Sciences organized the conservation and protection of the biological collections, while bombs and howitzers fell on the scientific institutions of the republican zone.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-25DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2019.12
Ângela Domingues
This article focuses on the vast and complex scientific and institutional process related to the collection of artefacts and the formation of scientific-natural, ethnological and anthropological collections from various extra-European colonial spaces in Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century. It also addresses the institutions that housed these materials. In a period when science was, by definition, useful and should serve the public interest in the pursuit of welfare, progress and the happiness of peoples, scientific studies had the objective of contributing to a scientific survey with encyclopaedic pretensions of the imperial spaces through the identification, collection and study of the natural productions and the “physical and moral characteristics” of the natives. The scientific curiosity that characterized the social groups involved in this process allowed the embodiment of a set of practices that was thought in Lisbon and implemented by Portuguese subjects throughout the empire. From this set of practices, I would like to highlight the philosophical voyages, scientific explorations aimed at the physical and economic description of the territories and the inventory of natural resources, considered as an instrument of political and administrative modernization of the empire at a time when science and technology were considered as essential tools for the development of the Modern State.
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