Military Health and Hospitals (XVII-XX)

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching of this course is based on theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, supported by iconographic elements, analysis of texts, readings and discussion in class. Each student has to write an individual paper to be presented and discussed in the seminar

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that students understand the evolution of the Portuguese population; contextualize the various occurrences and events at the level of solutions to improve the health of the military, integrating them into their own frames of thought and medical discoveries of different ages

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Brief evolutionary framework of the Portuguese population.

2. The beginnings of Military Health organization

2.1. Anatomists of the Renaissance

2.2. The Knights Hospitaller.

3. Seventeenth century

3.1. Technology and anatomy

3.2. The war and the need for hospitals

3.3. Chief surgeons in Portugal

4. Hospitals

4.1. Construction of Hospitals in the 2nd half of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

4.2. The reform of Passos Manuel in Health.

4.3. Hospital reorganization.

5. The Hospital at the end of the 19th and early 20th century.

5.1. The symbiosis between care and the emergence of new scientific perspectives.

5.2. The Hospital as a specific space that combines technology with scientific knowledge.

6. The Multidisciplinary Military Hospital.

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. ANTUNES, João Lobo, A Nova Medicina, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisboa, 2012.

2. CARVALHO, Augusto da Silva, «Elementos para a História da Medicina Naval Portuguesa», Sep. Anais da Marinha, Tomo IV, Ano III, Abril, 1941, nº 2.

3. FERREIRA, F. A. Gonçalves, História da Saúde e dos Serviços de Saúde em Portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1990.

4. REIS, Carlos Vieira, História da Medicina Militar Portuguesa, 2 vols., Estado-Maior do Exército, Lisboa, 2004.

5. SOURNIA, Jean-Charles, História da Medicina, Instituto Piaget, Lisboa, 1992.