Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 310000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matheus Alves Duarte |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Silva |
| SIGNATURE | DA SILVA M A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0982-6231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking the history of microbiology: New actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies
In this introduction, we first paint a panorama of the historiography of microbiology from the end of the nineteenth century until today, spanning from Pasteurian hagiographies, institutional histories, STS-informed analyses to critical research on the emergence of microbiology in an age of global empires. We then suggest three possibilities for historians and anthropologists to rethink the past and present of microbiology: (1) by centralizing th…
Disease landscapes beyond the “Spanish flu” pandemic: Temporal patterns, re-centered narratives (1889-1970s)
“C’est par l’accent que l’histoire met sur le changement et sur les différences ou écarts affectant les changements qu’elle se distingue des autres sciences sociales et principalement de la sociologie”, argued Paul Ricoeur in his classic study La mémoire, l’histoire,l’oubli. We could add to this that change —the passage from one collective situation or circumstance to another— would constitute not only the most specific object of history, but als…
Towards a complex ecology: An essay on plague history in Brazil (1890s-1970s)
This paper offers a periodization of the history of plague in Brazil. It is based on the ways in which experts and public health officers framed the disease, the elements they considered responsible for its spread, and changes in these elements over time. In accordance with this periodization, the article first argues that the ecology of plague became progressively more complex in the 20th century, suggesting the rise of a more ecological-oriente…
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939
In the 1930s, a series of bubonic plague outbreaks among humans cropped up in several villages at the border of Angola and Namibia. These outbreaks provoked deep concern, laying bare social and political tensions amongst neighboring imperial powers and Indigenous people within the region. Despite the appearance of this disease in what was then considered a recondite place, its spread sparked debate in transnational forums, such as the League of N…
Of rats and children: Plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)
This article's jumping-off point is the highly incisive but often-ignored claim by the French doctor, Louis-Jacques Tanon, in 1922 that rats acted as plague reservoirs in Paris; in other words, that they harboured the plague bacillus but were refractory to it. This claim partially reframed the fight against this disease in the French capital in the 1920s, which became more centred on surveilling the plague reservoir rather than on destroying rats…
Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945
Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894–1920
This chapter retraces the global production of microbiological knowledge during the first decades of the third plague pandemic (1894–1914), a sanitary and scientific conjuncture that traversed different empires and independent nations. To do so, it maps scientific interactions and the circulation of antiplague sera and vaccines, and as techniques of treatment and immunization. Firstly, this chapter argues that the plague pandemic and microbiology…
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)
I trace the development of the concept of sylvatic plague - the first sylvatic disease - examining its invention by Ricardo Jorge to describe a global phenomenon of plague reservoirs among wild rodents, and its circulation. The concept implied a space where plague was enzootic, and relied on a division between inhabited and uninhabited spaces and between domestic rats and wild rodents. Some of the characteristics of this space varied, but it alwa…
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health
The introduction of the special issue "Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches" sets out the origins and trajectories of disease reservoir frameworks. First, it charts the emergence and elaborations of the reservoirs concept within and across early 20th-century colonial contexts, emphasising its configuration within imperial projects that sought to identify, map and control spaces of contagion among humans, animals, and path…
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches
Funding: Research leading to this article was funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant ID 217988/Z/19/Z] for the project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis.” For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International audience
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the global turn in the history of science, technology, and medicine
Trayectorias y desafíos en la historiografía de la ciencia y de la medicina en América Latina
El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir a la historiografía de la ciencia y la medicina Latinoamericana analizando cuatro perspectivas utilizadas por los investigadores desde mediados del siglo XX hasta comienzos del siglo XXI. La primera perspectiva fue fuertemente influenciada por un supuesto eurocéntrico según el cual la ciencia era un producto intelectual moderno, una forma de conocimiento racional superior y deseable a todas las culturas.…
Quand la peste connectait le monde: Production et circulation de savoirs microbiologiques entre Brésil, Inde et France (1894-1922)
Entre 1899 et 1900, le bacille de la peste bubonique est identifié pour la première fois au Brésil, dans le cœur économique du pays, à São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro. Pour combattre le fléau, les pouvoirs publics créent deux laboratoires chargés de la production de sérums et de vaccins antipesteux, Butantan et Manguinhos, et mettent en place une série de mesures d’hygiène publique, dont les vaccinations et la chasse aux rats. La politique sanitaire …
A pasteurização do império francês
Review of the Book : VELMET, Aro. Pasteur’s empire: bacteriology and politics in France, its colonies and the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 306p
Compétition, controverses et cultures de microbes: Le développement du sérum antipesteux entre Paris et l’Inde (1894-1899)
La capacité de préparer des sérums et des vaccins capables de guérir ou d’immuniser les êtres humains était affichée par les bactériologistes de la fin du xix e siècle comme l’un des principaux acquis de la « révolution microbienne ». Toutefois, les difficultés rencontrées pour développer un produit thérapeutique allongeaient le chemin conduisant de sa conception à la standardisation et utilisation à grande échelle. Ce décalage est bien illustré …
De Bombaim ao Rio de Janeiro: Circulação de conhecimento e a criação do Laboratório de Manguinhos, 1894-1902
Para se compreender a fundação, em 1900, e os primeiros trabalhos científicos do Instituto Soroterápico Federal, é necessário analisar a circulação de conhecimento e a disputa internacional envolvendo os soros antipestosos e as vacinas antipestosas. O artigo discute a criação do primeiro soro antipestoso, em Paris, e os testes realizados a partir de 1897 na Índia. Paralelamente, examina a invenção da vacina antipestosa na mesma época em Bombaim e…
“O Novo Commércio Oswáldico”: Circulação de conhecimento e o controle da peste bubônica no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo (1894-1910)
O presente artigo acompanha o estabelecimento de medidas de saúde pública contra a peste bubônica centradas na caça e na destruição dos ratos em São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro. O argumento central do texto é que não se tratou de uma mera aplicação de uma teoria europeia no Brasil ou da difusão de um conhecimento produzido no exterior e adotado no país. Ao contrário, defende-se que a adoção dessas medidas, simbolizada na figura do “ratoeiro”, no Ri…
Ideias, práticas e instituições da medicina naval na origem da medicina tropical francesa
Review of the Book - OSBORNE, Michael. The emergence of tropical medicine in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2014, 328p
Micróbios no convés: A peste bubônica e o fim das quarentenas no Brasil (1899-1904)
O presente artigo analisa as imbricações entre as epidemias de peste bubônica no Brasil, sobretudo no Rio de Janeiro, e o progressivo relaxamento das leis quarentenárias brasileiras até a extinção da prática da quarentena, em 1904. O artigo argumenta que, em primeiro lugar, a ameaça e, posteriormente, a presença da peste bubônica no país, catalisaram uma discussão profunda sobre a pertinência, ou não, do estabelecimento de quarentenas. E em segun…
Não é meu intuito estabelecer polêmica: A chegada da peste ao Brasil, análise de uma controvérsia, 1899
Analisa um debate trazido a público pelo Jornal do Commercio , entre agosto e setembro de 1899, envolvendo duas autoridades sanitárias, Nuno de Andrade, diretor-geral de Saúde Pública, e Jorge Pinto, diretor de Higiene e Assistência Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. No cerne da questão as medidas tomadas pelo governo federal para evitar a chegada da peste bubônica ao Brasil, a partir de uma epidemia existente na cidade do Porto, Portugal. O re…
Não é meu intuito estabelecer polêmica: A chegada da peste ao Brasil, análise de uma controvérsia, 1899
Analisa um debate trazido a público pelo Jornal do Commercio , entre agosto e setembro de 1899, envolvendo duas autoridades sanitárias, Nuno de Andrade, diretor-geral de Saúde Pública, e Jorge Pinto, diretor de Higiene e Assistência Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. No cerne da questão as medidas tomadas pelo governo federal para evitar a chegada da peste bubônica ao Brasil, a partir de uma epidemia existente na cidade do Porto, Portugal. O re…
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health
The introduction of the special issue "Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches" sets out the origins and trajectories of disease reservoir frameworks. First, it charts the emergence and elaborations of the reservoirs concept within and across early 20th-century colonial contexts, emphasising its configuration within imperial projects that sought to identify, map and control spaces of contagion among humans, animals, and path…
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)
I trace the development of the concept of sylvatic plague - the first sylvatic disease - examining its invention by Ricardo Jorge to describe a global phenomenon of plague reservoirs among wild rodents, and its circulation. The concept implied a space where plague was enzootic, and relied on a division between inhabited and uninhabited spaces and between domestic rats and wild rodents. Some of the characteristics of this space varied, but it alwa…
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches
Funding: Research leading to this article was funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant ID 217988/Z/19/Z] for the project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis.” For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission
De Bombaim ao Rio de Janeiro: Circulação de conhecimento e a criação do Laboratório de Manguinhos, 1894-1902
Para se compreender a fundação, em 1900, e os primeiros trabalhos científicos do Instituto Soroterápico Federal, é necessário analisar a circulação de conhecimento e a disputa internacional envolvendo os soros antipestosos e as vacinas antipestosas. O artigo discute a criação do primeiro soro antipestoso, em Paris, e os testes realizados a partir de 1897 na Índia. Paralelamente, examina a invenção da vacina antipestosa na mesma época em Bombaim e…
Of rats and children: Plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)
This article's jumping-off point is the highly incisive but often-ignored claim by the French doctor, Louis-Jacques Tanon, in 1922 that rats acted as plague reservoirs in Paris; in other words, that they harboured the plague bacillus but were refractory to it. This claim partially reframed the fight against this disease in the French capital in the 1920s, which became more centred on surveilling the plague reservoir rather than on destroying rats…
Micróbios no convés: A peste bubônica e o fim das quarentenas no Brasil (1899-1904)
O presente artigo analisa as imbricações entre as epidemias de peste bubônica no Brasil, sobretudo no Rio de Janeiro, e o progressivo relaxamento das leis quarentenárias brasileiras até a extinção da prática da quarentena, em 1904. O artigo argumenta que, em primeiro lugar, a ameaça e, posteriormente, a presença da peste bubônica no país, catalisaram uma discussão profunda sobre a pertinência, ou não, do estabelecimento de quarentenas. E em segun…
Não é meu intuito estabelecer polêmica: A chegada da peste ao Brasil, análise de uma controvérsia, 1899
Analisa um debate trazido a público pelo Jornal do Commercio , entre agosto e setembro de 1899, envolvendo duas autoridades sanitárias, Nuno de Andrade, diretor-geral de Saúde Pública, e Jorge Pinto, diretor de Higiene e Assistência Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. No cerne da questão as medidas tomadas pelo governo federal para evitar a chegada da peste bubônica ao Brasil, a partir de uma epidemia existente na cidade do Porto, Portugal. O re…
Micróbios no convés: A peste bubônica e o fim das quarentenas no Brasil (1899-1904)
O presente artigo analisa as imbricações entre as epidemias de peste bubônica no Brasil, sobretudo no Rio de Janeiro, e o progressivo relaxamento das leis quarentenárias brasileiras até a extinção da prática da quarentena, em 1904. O artigo argumenta que, em primeiro lugar, a ameaça e, posteriormente, a presença da peste bubônica no país, catalisaram uma discussão profunda sobre a pertinência, ou não, do estabelecimento de quarentenas. E em segun…
“O Novo Commércio Oswáldico”: Circulação de conhecimento e o controle da peste bubônica no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo (1894-1910)
O presente artigo acompanha o estabelecimento de medidas de saúde pública contra a peste bubônica centradas na caça e na destruição dos ratos em São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro. O argumento central do texto é que não se tratou de uma mera aplicação de uma teoria europeia no Brasil ou da difusão de um conhecimento produzido no exterior e adotado no país. Ao contrário, defende-se que a adoção dessas medidas, simbolizada na figura do “ratoeiro”, no Ri…
Ideias, práticas e instituições da medicina naval na origem da medicina tropical francesa
Review of the Book - OSBORNE, Michael. The emergence of tropical medicine in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2014, 328p
Compétition, controverses et cultures de microbes: Le développement du sérum antipesteux entre Paris et l’Inde (1894-1899)
La capacité de préparer des sérums et des vaccins capables de guérir ou d’immuniser les êtres humains était affichée par les bactériologistes de la fin du xix e siècle comme l’un des principaux acquis de la « révolution microbienne ». Toutefois, les difficultés rencontrées pour développer un produit thérapeutique allongeaient le chemin conduisant de sa conception à la standardisation et utilisation à grande échelle. Ce décalage est bien illustré …
De Bombaim ao Rio de Janeiro: Circulação de conhecimento e a criação do Laboratório de Manguinhos, 1894-1902
Para se compreender a fundação, em 1900, e os primeiros trabalhos científicos do Instituto Soroterápico Federal, é necessário analisar a circulação de conhecimento e a disputa internacional envolvendo os soros antipestosos e as vacinas antipestosas. O artigo discute a criação do primeiro soro antipestoso, em Paris, e os testes realizados a partir de 1897 na Índia. Paralelamente, examina a invenção da vacina antipestosa na mesma época em Bombaim e…
Trayectorias y desafíos en la historiografía de la ciencia y de la medicina en América Latina
El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir a la historiografía de la ciencia y la medicina Latinoamericana analizando cuatro perspectivas utilizadas por los investigadores desde mediados del siglo XX hasta comienzos del siglo XXI. La primera perspectiva fue fuertemente influenciada por un supuesto eurocéntrico según el cual la ciencia era un producto intelectual moderno, una forma de conocimiento racional superior y deseable a todas las culturas.…
Quand la peste connectait le monde: Production et circulation de savoirs microbiologiques entre Brésil, Inde et France (1894-1922)
Entre 1899 et 1900, le bacille de la peste bubonique est identifié pour la première fois au Brésil, dans le cœur économique du pays, à São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro. Pour combattre le fléau, les pouvoirs publics créent deux laboratoires chargés de la production de sérums et de vaccins antipesteux, Butantan et Manguinhos, et mettent en place une série de mesures d’hygiène publique, dont les vaccinations et la chasse aux rats. La politique sanitaire …
A pasteurização do império francês
Review of the Book : VELMET, Aro. Pasteur’s empire: bacteriology and politics in France, its colonies and the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 306p
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International audience
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the global turn in the history of science, technology, and medicine
Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945
Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894–1920
This chapter retraces the global production of microbiological knowledge during the first decades of the third plague pandemic (1894–1914), a sanitary and scientific conjuncture that traversed different empires and independent nations. To do so, it maps scientific interactions and the circulation of antiplague sera and vaccines, and as techniques of treatment and immunization. Firstly, this chapter argues that the plague pandemic and microbiology…
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)
I trace the development of the concept of sylvatic plague - the first sylvatic disease - examining its invention by Ricardo Jorge to describe a global phenomenon of plague reservoirs among wild rodents, and its circulation. The concept implied a space where plague was enzootic, and relied on a division between inhabited and uninhabited spaces and between domestic rats and wild rodents. Some of the characteristics of this space varied, but it alwa…
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health
The introduction of the special issue "Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches" sets out the origins and trajectories of disease reservoir frameworks. First, it charts the emergence and elaborations of the reservoirs concept within and across early 20th-century colonial contexts, emphasising its configuration within imperial projects that sought to identify, map and control spaces of contagion among humans, animals, and path…
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches
Funding: Research leading to this article was funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant ID 217988/Z/19/Z] for the project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis.” For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission
Of rats and children: Plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)
This article's jumping-off point is the highly incisive but often-ignored claim by the French doctor, Louis-Jacques Tanon, in 1922 that rats acted as plague reservoirs in Paris; in other words, that they harboured the plague bacillus but were refractory to it. This claim partially reframed the fight against this disease in the French capital in the 1920s, which became more centred on surveilling the plague reservoir rather than on destroying rats…
Rethinking the history of microbiology: New actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies
In this introduction, we first paint a panorama of the historiography of microbiology from the end of the nineteenth century until today, spanning from Pasteurian hagiographies, institutional histories, STS-informed analyses to critical research on the emergence of microbiology in an age of global empires. We then suggest three possibilities for historians and anthropologists to rethink the past and present of microbiology: (1) by centralizing th…
Disease landscapes beyond the “Spanish flu” pandemic: Temporal patterns, re-centered narratives (1889-1970s)
“C’est par l’accent que l’histoire met sur le changement et sur les différences ou écarts affectant les changements qu’elle se distingue des autres sciences sociales et principalement de la sociologie”, argued Paul Ricoeur in his classic study La mémoire, l’histoire,l’oubli. We could add to this that change —the passage from one collective situation or circumstance to another— would constitute not only the most specific object of history, but als…
Towards a complex ecology: An essay on plague history in Brazil (1890s-1970s)
This paper offers a periodization of the history of plague in Brazil. It is based on the ways in which experts and public health officers framed the disease, the elements they considered responsible for its spread, and changes in these elements over time. In accordance with this periodization, the article first argues that the ecology of plague became progressively more complex in the 20th century, suggesting the rise of a more ecological-oriente…
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939
In the 1930s, a series of bubonic plague outbreaks among humans cropped up in several villages at the border of Angola and Namibia. These outbreaks provoked deep concern, laying bare social and political tensions amongst neighboring imperial powers and Indigenous people within the region. Despite the appearance of this disease in what was then considered a recondite place, its spread sparked debate in transnational forums, such as the League of N…
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