The ideas and concepts regarding language and its disorders have a longstanding history. However, it was possible to consider the 19th century as the period when the main milestones on the subject begun to be settled, with Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's pivotal findings. Albeit language disorders (apha...
Egas Moniz is credited with the discovery in 1927 of radioarteriography, for which he was, on three occasions, nominated for the Nobel Prize, and in all three denied the award. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for having designed leucotomy, a brain surgery to treat some forms of severe...
ResumoO artigo busca refletir sobre a contribuição de Joaquim Alberto Cardoso de Melo (19361993) ao campo da Saúde Coletiva relacionando sua trajetória de vida e sua produção científica com questões em seu tempo e que permanecem em debate na atualidade. Contribuição que resultou na produção d...