Article ID: CBB001420628

Pai Manoel, o curandeiro africano, e a medicina no Pernambuco imperial (2012)

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Farias, Rosilene Gomes (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 19, suppl. 1
Issue: suppl. 1
Pages: 215-231


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue, “Health and Slavery”
Language: English

The article tells the story of Pai Manoel, a healer who claimed he had a remedy for cholera. A slave from the Guararapes sugarcane plantation in Recife, Pai Manoel was the center of an episode during the 1856 epidemic outbreak that called into question the work of physicians and the efficacy of the treatments they used. This moment of crisis revealed underlying tensions between those who were authorized to treat the infirm, applying scientific methods, and others, who used traditional knowledge in their treatment. The article discusses such topics as the shaping of the field of medicine in Brazil and, especially, in Pernambuco, and the strategies devised to guarantee the exclusive right to practice medicine and to combat competing forms of healing.

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Authors & Contributors
Read, Ian
Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de
Ismail, Shehab
Palma, Patricia
Karimkhanzand, Mostafa
Janakan, Gnananandan
Concepts
Epidemics
Cholera
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
Brazil
England
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
United States
Portugal
Calabria
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