Os túmulos pelas ruínas | A história pelas paredes | A peste branca pelas memórias: a arquitetura dos sanatórios para a tuberculose em Portugal (1850-1970)
2018; Volume: 17; Linguagem: Inglês
10.25761/anaisihmt.296
ISSN0303-7762
Autores Tópico(s)Leprosy Research and Treatment
ResumoTuberculosis was one of the main hecatombs since the 19th century and considered one of the most important diseases of the 20th century. The white plague decimated parts of the Portuguese population, and so it gathered struggle efforts by doctors, architects and intricate networks of power. Sanatoria were essential elements for this fight as architecture for tuberculosis and have operated throughout different political, social and economic wars. They are one of the fortresses symbols of medical, architectural and social disciplines. Tuberculosis sanatoria experienced processes of structural and architectural mutations, accompanying and report to medicinal syllabuses. In this way, they are vital documents for the understanding of both the history of architecture and of tuberculosis. Like memories, they also stand as voiceless heritages, in the form of graves – indeed, the antithesis of their program. Sanatoria where fortifications and symbols of health and urban safeguard, as of apparent cure and clear prophylaxis: nowadays, they are left to total abandonment. An analysis of these buildings, from an interdisciplinary perspective, unveils a series of relationships, famous for both medical and architectural historiography.
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