Os manuais de medicina e a circulação do saber no século XIX no Brasil: mediação entre o saber acadêmico e o saber popular

Resumo

Análise do papel desempenhado pelos manuais de medicina na difusão
do saber médico entre a população leiga no Brasil ao longo do século
XIX. Os manuais analisados serão escolhidos entre os textos voltados ao
público sem formação acadêmica e com dificuldades, de diversas ordens,
em encontrar os médicos no século XIX no Brasil. A idéia que norteia o
artigo é avaliar em que medida os manuais de medicina popular exerciam
o papel de divulgadores do conhecimento médico sistematizado nas academias.

Medical handbooks and the circulation of
knowledge in the 19th century in Brazil:
mediation between academic knowledge
and popular knowledge

Abstract

This work is an analysis of the role played by medical handbooks for the
dissemination of medical knowledge within the lay population in Brazil throughout the 19th century. The handbooks analyzed will be chosen from
the texts directed to the public who did not have academic formation and
with difficulties, of different orders, in finding doctors in the 19th century
in Brazil. The idea that guides this article is to evaluate to what extent
popular medical handbooks played the role of spreading the medical
knowledge systematized in the universities.