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.