Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
O Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos e seus agentes da cura
2015; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 22; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/s0104-59702015000400008
ISSN1678-4758
Autores Tópico(s)Early Modern Women Writers
ResumoThe article explores the actions of king Dom João II (1481-1495), who spearheaded a major assistance reform in Portugal during the late fifteenth century, when charitable institutions were grappling with a serious crisis. The king and his queen, Dona Leonor, ordered two large, modern hospitals to be built, centralizing assistance work and cementing a new assistance model. Relying on chronicles and royal decrees from the period, the article focuses on the main hospital that was built then: Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos, located in Lisbon. The king and queen also intervened heavily in the practice of health agents by regulating, overseeing, and inspecting the work of doctors and apothecaries.
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