Healer, midwife and bleeder

healing at the beginning of the 19th century at the imperial court

Authors

  • Tânia Salgado Pimenta Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i6.150678

Keywords:

Health history, History of healing arts, Popular therapists, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article tries to highlight the relations between popular therapists and those with academic formation in Rio de Janeiro of the first decades of the nineteenth century considering the historiography of the exercise of healing arts. From the documentation of the Fisicatura-mor, it is sought to emphasize issues such as the heterogeneity of the popular therapists and to show the diversity of the relations between popular therapists and those with academic formation.

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Author Biography

  • Tânia Salgado Pimenta, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ

    PhD in History from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP); a researcher at the Department of Research in the History of Science and Health at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz and professor at the Post-Graduation Program in the History of Science and Health at Fiocruz. She is the organizer, along with colleagues, of the books: History of Health in Brazil (2018); Slavery, Cure Diseases and Practices in Brazil (2016) and Philanthropies of the Nation - Society, Health and Care in Brazil and Portugal (2015)

Khronos nº 6 - História das doenças e das artes de curar

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Published

2018-12-19

Issue

No. 6 (2018): Dossier "History of Diseases and Arts of Healing"

Section

Dossiê “História das doenças e artes de curar"

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How to Cite

Pimenta, T. S. (2018). Healer, midwife and bleeder: healing at the beginning of the 19th century at the imperial court. Khronos, 6, 6. https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i6.150678