Insights into Portuguese Medical History

Maria do Sameiro Barroso, MD, is a Family Medicine Specialist, Germanist, poet, translator, essayist, and researcher in the History of Medicine. She is the President of the Department of History of Medicine of the Portuguese Medical Association and a Researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. She is also a Researcher at the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.Christopher John Duffin is a Scientific Associate in the Earth Science Department at the Natural History Museum in London, a Research Associate at Bristol University and President of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy. An award-winning palaeontologist, he has published extensively on a wide range of fossil groups, especially sharks and their allies. A co-author of the Handbook of Paleoichthyology Volume 3D (2010), he has also edited several books on the history of medicine. João Alcindo Martins e Silva holds a PhD in Medical Sciences. He is a retired Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Physiologic Biochemistry and a former Dean (1994-2005) of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon, while he also served as President of the Portuguese Society of Medical Education.