Ilustração, experimentalismo e mecanicismo: aspectos das transformações do saber médico em Portugal no século XVIIIAbstract
During the last decades, the Brazilian and Portuguese historiography has approached the relationship between medicine and scientific culture in the XVIII century. As a part of a larger research, this article presents some comments about the influence of experimentalism and mechanicism upon the medical knowledge during that time. Hence, I propose to analyze the "outsiders" critic to Galenian tradition, the role of the Reform in the University of Coimbra statutes of 1772, and the influence of mechanicism in anatomics. The main goal of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in medical knowledge during Portugal's Enlightenment.
medicine; experimentalism and Enlightenment.