Dr. Viotti earned her Doctorate (2017) and Master's in History and Social Culture (2012) from São Paulo State University (UNESP), where she also completed her Bachelor's and Teaching Degree in History (2008). She pursued post-doctoral internships at the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and at the Alexandre Koyré Center of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). She was welcomed as a Junior Visiting Researcher Abroad (CAPES-PrInt) by the University of Lisbon. Dr. Viotti is a professor in the Department of Political and Economic Sciences (DCPE) at UNESP/Marília and in the Graduate Program in History at UNESP. She serves as a Correspondent Researcher at the Center for History (CH) of the University of Lisbon, the Center for Global Studies (Open University - Lisbon), and the Ibero-American Network of Research on Cultural Heritage and History of Health and Assistance: study, dissemination, and valorization (based at the University of Lisbon). Her work 'Pano, pau e pão. Escravos no Brasil colônia" was awarded in the "Social Sciences" category by the Brazilian Association of University Presses (ABEU, 2020). Dr. Viotti was also honored with the 'Prix international d'encouragement aux études postdoctorales "etudes globales" (EHESS, European Institute of Cultural Sciences, International Society of Jesuit Studies, CIDH - 2021). She has experience in the field of Modern History, focusing primarily on the following themes: history of the body, medicine, and health; history of sciences; slavery; history of food. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais is a privileged place to identify, question and understand the the syncretism of knowledge and healing practices that were the keynote of colonial Brazil: ways of knowing and acting on sick bodies, coming from indigenous, African and European traditions, converged in plural experiences - with the work of healers, midwives, barbers, doctors, surgeons and rel…
The Portuguese Crown encouraged the presence of regular clergy in America from the mid-16th century on. Initially, this entity assumed the costs of sending and maintaining the missionaries. However, as colonization advanced in the 17th and 18th centuries, Lisbon kept for itself the power to authorize the entry and settlement of religious overseas while delegating to the people of the land…
Since the beginning of English maritime expansion under Elizabeth I, tobacco emerged as an important commodity, being legally traded with the colonists of Virginia and the Kingdom of Spain, or illicitly acquired through the spoils of Spanish galleons. However, during this period, tobacco's prominence was largely due to the establishment of the town of Jamestown in Virginia, which soon bec…
Hannah Woolley (1622-1675), an English domestic from the 17th century, was one of the pioneers in publications of women's medical prescriptions of her time, reaching the mark of seven works related to her. In her works, Woolley addressed a variety of topics, of which physical health through the connection of herbs and foods with medical treatments stands out. Among them, attention is …
In the Eighteenth Century, in the context of abandonment over the ciy of Goa, capital of the so called Portuguese India, the elevated disease levels and high mortality rates among the native people and europeans living in the western portion of the empire had, among its consequences, a raise in the need for atention in the treatment of the body. At that moment, the lack of professionals e…
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By the second half of the 16th century, especially after Elizabeth I's ascension to the English throne, privateering and overseas expansion increased in the country. Besides this expansion, England became capable of canvassing and accessing commodities once restricted or mediated by the Iberian nations, and tobacco would soon be one of the most important commodities, rapidly crossing the …
In the writing of the thesis, in progress, the chapter referring to the history of the supply of haberdashery in the infirmaries and the pantries of the refectory of the Franciscan convents in southern Portuguese America focused mainly on the local connections between friars and benefactors. From this perspective, despite the kingdom origin of some of the prelates and the appointment of C…
During the Eighteenth-century, the book Medicina Oriental was written in Goa by, as one believes, the Goan Luís Caetano de Meneses. This medical and pharmaceutical manuscript aimed to be diffused among people living in Goa, disseminating useful knowledge about the treatment of the bodies to those who hadn't access to foreign drugs and to the professional healers. Meneses prioritizes eleme…
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