ABSTRACT
This article aims to understand the historic processes of construction, reconfiguration and circulation of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge in Portuguese India during the eighteenth century. It builds on the assumption that, throughout the Modern Era, Portuguese colonial domains were part of an intense process of production of scientific knowledge. In these spaces, knowledge was produced via diverse and complex means that were deeply related to local idiosyncrasies and closely connected to the channels of knowledge circulation established by imperial institutions. This paper aim to demonstrate the fundamental role of local populations and their respective medical traditions in the construction and circulation of medical knowledge.
Keywords:
History of Medicine; Goa; Portuguese India; João Lopes Pinheiro Root; Ignácio Caetano Afonso