Paper short abstract:

This paper centered on the study of surgical practices and knowledge between Portugal and Brazil in the eighteenth century. Discuss how surgical practices and discourses produced by surgeons both from Portugal and Portuguese America reflect and provoke changes in the academic and practical knowledge

Paper long abstract:

The paper submits to discussion an ongoing PhD project centered on the study of surgical practices and knowledge between Portugal and Brazil in the eighteenth century. It aims to discuss how surgical practices and discourses produced by surgeons both from Portugal and Portuguese America reflect and provoke changes in the academic and practical knowledge. The paper aims at questioning at what extent the exchange of knowledge between Brazil and the metropolis contributed to an improvement of surgical practices. Surgical and medical treaties produced simultaneously in Portugal and Brazil, as well as descriptions of empirical uses of surgery will be scrutinized. Those materials will be analyzed under common knowledge about the renovation of the standard bases of Natural Philosophy in Europe, as well as under discussions concerning the new standing of Surgery towards Medicine, considering academic training, scientific academies, knowledge circulation and social status of surgeons in Portugal in the eighteenth century