The Portuguese participation in the Great War had political, economic and social consequences that were felt in the following decades, and that also had an impact on health. Through the mobilisation of over 100.000 men, the young Portuguese Republic (1910) hoped to obtain international recognition and protect its African colonies from British and German interests.
Although it might seem contradictory, the First World War triggered a set of technical and scientific advances in healthcare. But this total war would also forever mark the lives of many men, who returned with physical and psychiatric traumas, and who were soon consigned to oblivion. Through a set of objects, photographs and videos, this exhibition explores this double impact of the Great War on health, in Portugal.
Free entry
29 July to 29 September 2019
10-13h/ 14h-17h from Mondays to Sundays
Hospital de Santo António – Auditório Prof. Doutor Alexandre Moreira do Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto
Curators: Helena da Silva e José Picas do Vale
Executive committee: Helena da Silva, José Picas do Vale, Margarida Portela e Sónia Faria
Design: Jorge Galvão
Translation: Ana Simão
Dressmaker: Elsa Cunha
Graphic printing: Augustos
Insurance: Innovarisk
Transportation: Associação Humanitária dos Bombeiros Voluntários de Almada
Exhibition initiators:
DEFI | Departamento de Ensino, Formação e Investigação | Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto
Instituto de História Contemporânea – Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Support and Acknowledgements: A Casa do Guarda; Associação Humanitária dos Bombeiros Voluntários de Almada; Centro Social Paroquial de Almada – Lar de S. Tiago; Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa; Exército Português (Direcção de História e Cultura Militar, Arquivo Histórico Militar, Biblioteca do Exército, Museu Militar de Elvas, Museu Militar de Lisboa); Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia – Investigador FCT; Gil Santos; Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa; Liga dos Combatentes; Margarida Durães; Ordem Hospitaleira de São João de Deus – Museu São João de Deus; Rui Vaz Osório Wellcome Collection
Healthcare and Great War 