Pequenas Cidades no Tempo: A saúde

The pandemic caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, responsible for the Covid-19 disease, has led to the adoption of successive measures to try to minimize its spread. As we know, over the last two years or so, health has been on the personal agenda of each and every one of us, as well as on the health, political, media and academic agendas. Although the context might not have seemed favorable to holding a scientific event, we thought it would be a good time to analyze the issue of health from the perspective of small towns over time.
This book is the result of a selection of the papers presented and debated at the Small Cities and Health Colloquium, held online on May 6, 7 and 8, 2021. The texts presented include very diverse approaches in their chronological spectrum, from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period, and in their methods, by different areas of historical research.
The volume thus offers what we consider to be an up-to-date perspective on the problem of health from small urban centers, including reflections on public health policies and structures, the processes of change and adaptation, resource management and its materiality, the role of local governments and their interaction with central power, as well as reflections on urban responses in times of epidemics.
The volume offers what we consider to be an up-to-date perspective on the problem of health in small urban areas, including

Editors:  IEM - Instituto de Estudos Medievais; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades, Câmara de Castelo de Vide