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Propaganda and Philanthropy: The Institute Bento da Rocha Cabral, the Lisbon Site of Biochemistry (1925--1953) (2015)

Carneiro, Ana (Author)
Amaral, Isabel (Author)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 62, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 138-166

Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Sites of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century
Language: English

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Biochemistry Privately sponsored science; philanthropy Science and politics Medicine 20th century, early Lisbon (Portugal)

This paper focuses on the internal organization and dynamics of the Institute Bento da Rocha Cabral (IRC) in Lisbon, a privately-funded institution devoted to biomedical research, from the particular vantage point of its laboratory of biochemistry; in particular, the process through which the institution turned from medically-related to chemically-related research in the period spanning from 1925-1953. The history of the IRC raises interesting questions regarding the social politics of science as it materialized the desire of leading physicians of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon to create proper physical facilities for medically-related scientific research. We argue that the process which led to the creation of the IRC coincided with the gradual professional and political ascendance of physicians in Portuguese society initiated in the late nineteenth century, and is closely associated with Portuguese republicanism and the process of Lisbon becoming the scientific capital.

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Article Reinhardt, Carsten (2015) Sites of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 109-113). unapi

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