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Joćo Rangel de Almeida
- Name Joćo Rangel de Almeida
- Organisation
- Science Studies, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Rm 3.01, Chisholm House High School Yards Edinburgh UK EH1 1LZ
- joao.ra@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/science_and_technology_studies/rangel_de_almeida_joao
PhD Title
The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the construction of an international field of public health
My research shows how nations concerted efforts to create a common sanitary policy in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that as delegates of European states, diplomats and physicians established the field of international public health by creating common mechanisms of surveillance and coercion that ultimately impacted the flow of people, vessels, cargo, and diseases in the Mediterranean region. Delegates circulated knowledge and mobilised complex political networks to conciliate and forge personal and national agendas. Moreover, by co-producing standards under the form of common classification system of diseases, delegates developed efforts to locate epidemic risks, and devise surveillance schemes across borders. In a trans-national forum such as the Conference, doctors and diplomats reinterpreted models of public health while creating institutions that challenged conventional concepts of borders, national policy, and state sovereignty.
In summary, I analyse an important episode of regulation of health, trade, bodies, and cargo in a period of epidemic crisis.
Current Degrees
2006 MSc by Research Science and Technology Studies, University of Edinburgh
2003 MA (Hons) Sociology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Research Interests
History of diplomacy of public health. Medicine and Politics. International conferences. Quarantine. Aetiological debates. 19c European history. Global public health.
Supervisors
Steve Sturdy (Science Studies Unit/Genomics Forum)
Roger Davidson (Social History)
Personal webpage
Miscellaneous
João is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
João is now back to Edinburgh after a productive year as a visiting student at University of Pennsylvania - Department of History and Sociology of Science
This page was published on 27 December 2011