Philanthropy and health care: Portugal, England and colonial resonances in Brazil and the United States (1770-1830)

• Grant number: 17/16721-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Ana Lúcia Lana Nemi
• Grantee: Ana Lúcia Lana Nemi
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/03271-9 - Philanthropy and health care: Portugal, England and colonial resonances in Brazil and the United States (1770-1830), BP.TT

Abstract

The goal of this research is firstly, to compare the philanthropic health care practices in Portugal and England between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Secondly, it aims to depict continuities and/or transformations of these original metropolitan practices in their colonial areas in Brazil and the United States. In order to conduct the research, it is especially important to observe how health care financing practices were somehow understood as philanthropic content anchored in Christian virtues since the first modernity; it is also central to this study to retrace the social agents responsible for them; finally, it seeks to investigate the population served by this type of health care. To achieve its goal, the research is focused on analysing the experiences of Santa Casa de Misericórdia in Lisbon, St. Thomas Hospital in London, Santa Casa de Misericórdia in São Paulo and Bellevue Hospital Center in New York, focusing on their regulations (councils and suppliers meeting minutes), their legislations and the resources made available for their actions. The research funding requested here is intended to collect documentation of the institutions selected for research in Portugal, England and the United States. (AU)