Brazil.- A thesis on the history of medicine in the 18th century wins a research award from the Yuste Foundation

MÉRIDA, 20 (EUROPA PRESS)

Brazilian Monique Palma’s doctoral thesis “Cirurgiões, practices and knowledge of surgery in Portuguese America no seculo XVIII”, has obtained the 1st Research Prize for Ibero-American Doctoral Theses organized by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

The award, endowed with 3,000 euros and the publication of the doctoral thesis, has been delivered within the framework of the I International Congress ‘Relations between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean: a meeting space’ held between March 18 and 20 from the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.

Of this work, which deals with the exchange of people and knowledge between Europe and Latin America, and especially between Portugal and Brazil, the jury has highlighted “its high scientific quality and the brilliance of the defense by its author”, reports the Board in a press release.

This doctoral thesis, focused on the 18th century, must be considered valid in the current world health situation, exposing in an exhaustive, accurate and detailed way the currents of knowledge and understanding that have existed for centuries between Europe and Latin America, as the thesis itself expresses to the state that “it involves a study of the processes of circulation of people and knowledge in a world that tends to globalization.”

Dr. Monique Palma has highlighted the importance of this award to promote research, in this sense she has framed her satisfaction at receiving this award, a recognition that is “a stimulus to continue researching and to give my best in search of knowledge” .

Palma has detailed his work, which has focused on three main focuses: the profile and a socio-professional framework of surgeries in Portuguese America; medical-surgical practice in the 18th century in Portugal and Latin America and, finally, the circulation of knowledge in this area between these two regions.

Monique Palma has a PhD in History from the University of Porto, Portugal. Master in History from the University of Maringá, Brazil. Member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space and Memory of the University of Porto.

Currently, she works as a researcher in the project DUNES o Mar, a Areia e as Gentes, at the History Center of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He received the International Research Award at the Doctorate level “Pina Manique – From the Enlightenment to the Liberal Revolution”, from the Portuguese Academy of History / Pina Manique Foundation, 2020.

The jury has been made up of Professor of American History at the University of Extremadura, Sigfrido Vázquez Cienfuegos; the researcher and winner of the III edition of the Fernando Serrano Mangas Doctoral Thesis Award, Natalia K. Denisova; the professor of Languages ​​and Computer Systems at the University of Extremadura, Elena Jurado Málaga; the professor of Art History at the University of Extremadura, Rosa Mª Perales Piqueres; and the director of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno Piñero, who chaired the jury.

I RESEARCH AWARD FOR IBERO-AMERICAN DOCTORAL THESES

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation announced the I Research Award for Ibero-American Doctoral Theses in order to reward the best doctoral thesis that, read during the last two years in Spain, Portugal or any Ibero-American or European country and that had obtained the maximum academic qualification, address as a subject the relations between Spain, Portugal or Europe with Latin America and vice versa, from a historical, cultural, social, scientific, economic perspective or from any other field of study.

In this edition, 55 doctoral theses defended in 32 universities in fourteen countries of Europe and Latin America have been presented: Spain, Portugal, France, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Italy, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia.

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