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The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has just published the doctoral thesis “Cirurgiões, práticas e saberes cirúrgicos na América portuguesa no século XVIII”, by Brazilian Monique Palma. This is the winning thesis of the Research Prize to Ibero-American Doctoral Theses convened by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation whose prize was awarded in the framework of the I International Congress “Relations between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean: A Meeting Space”, which was held between 18 and 20 March 2021 at the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.(18/01/2022)

This is the fourth publication of the Foundation’s book collection “Tesis Doctorales”, the previous one was: “Filosofía de la historia de América: los cronistas de Indias en el pensamiento español” by Natalia K. Denisova.

This research, which focuses on the eighteenth century, must be considered valid in the current world health situation, as it exposes the flows of knowledge and understanding that have existed for centuries between Europe and Ibero-America in a comprehensive way, as the thesis itself states as it claims that “it involves a study of the processes of the circulation of people and knowledge in a world that tends towards globalisation”.

Monique Palma has a PhD in History from the University of Porto, Portugal. MA in History from the University of Maringá, Brazil. She is a Member of the Transdisciplinary Culture, Space and Memory Research Centre of the University of Porto. She currently works as a researcher in the DUNES ~ o Mar, a Areia e as Gentes project of the History Centre of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She received the international research award at doctoral level “Pina Manique – From Enlightenment to the Liberal Revolution”, from the Portuguese Academy of History / Pina Manique Foundation, 2020.