18 February
10.00 Doors open - Registration
10.15 Guido Giglioni: Welcome and Introduction
10.30 Mário Farelo: The Portuguese peregrinatio medica in the Late Medieval Period
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Jon Arrizabalaga: Travelling Abroad: Portuguese Medical Practitioners’ Patterns of Mobility, 1500-1800
12.00 Francisco Silva: De occultis proprietatibus: The Idea of Hidden Qualities in the Medicine of António Luís
12.30 Henrique Leitão: António Luís’ Problemata
1.00 Lunch (for invited guests)
2.30 Guido Giglioni: Prudentia and peregrinatio in Amatus Lusitanus’ Centuriae septem (1556)
3.00 Palmira Fontes da Costa: Geographical Expansion and the Reconfiguration of Medical authority: Garcia de Orta’s Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India (‘Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India’)
3.30 Tea
4.00 Bruno Martins: From Wind to the Body: The Conception of Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Estevão Rodrigues de Castro
4.30 Hervé Baudry: The Question of the Early Reception of Paracelsus and Paracelsianism in Seventeenth Century Portugal
5.00 Discussion
5.30 Reception
7.00 Dinner (for invited guests)
19 February
10.00 Doors open - Registration
10.15 Timothy Walker: Supplying Simples for the Royal Hospital: Hybridized Indo-Portuguese Medical Culture in the Colonial Hospital Militar at Goa, India (c. 1550-1800)
10.45 Adelino Cardoso: João Semedo’s Art of Healing: Between the Body and the Mind
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Bruno Barreiros: Public Health and Notions of Perfectibility and Degeneration in Eighteenth-Century Portugal
12.15 António Braz de Oliveira and Manuel Marques: Medicine in the Tropics: José Pinto de Azeredo’s Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades d’Angola (‘Essay on Some Illnesses in Angola’) and Other Manuscripts.
1.30 Lunch (for invited guests)
3.00 Conference closes
Registration fee: £20.00 (£10.00 concessions). Early registration is recommended
Please contact Elizabeth.Witchell(at)sas.ac.uk
With thanks to the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal (Project ‘Philosophy, Medicine and Society’, PTDC/FIL/64863/2006) and ‘Centro de História da Cultura da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas’, Universidade Nova, Lisbon for their support.