Isabel Amaral

Degree in Biochemistry and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, FCT NOVA (NOVA School of Science and Technology). Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, FCT NOVA (NOVA School of Science and Technology). Supervisor of several master’s and doctoral dissertations on the history of science and history of medicine and history of tropical medicine.

Member of the international group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Peripheries), vice-coordinator of the Interuniversity Center of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) since 2020, and member of the NOVA School of Science and Engineering, Council of R&D Units, where she coordinates the scientific management of researchers at this institution. She is a member of the Scientific Council and member of the Ethical Council at NOVA School of Sciences and Technology.

Member of the editorial board of Medical History – International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences, Cambridge Core, and of the HoST – Journal of the History of Science and Technology. Scientific consultant for the history section, the Anais de Higiene e Medicina Tropical.

Scientific interests in the history of the biological and biomedical sciences (19th-21st centuries), scientific/medical heritage, digital health, tropical medicine, public health policies, and bioethics, with publications and research projects focusing on these fields, mainly focusing on the Portuguese case.

1. Amaral, I. 2022, Tropical medicine and the consolidation of the Empire: reflecting on the Portuguese case (1902-1960) in Cozzoli, D & Cappoci, M. (eds.), Empires, the Nation and Tropical Medicine (1885 – 1960), Palgrave-MacMillan (under revision).
2. Amaral, I. 2021, “Medicina Tropical e Império Africano” In Inovação e Contestação (séc. XX), Vol. 4 of História da Ciência, da Tecnologia e da Medicina em Portugal, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões (series editors). Lisboa: Tinta da China: 143-160. https://tintadachina.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Historia-da-Ciencia_vol_4_verinterior.pdf
3. Amaral, I. 2021, “Medicina Tropical e Império Africano” In Inovação e Contestação (séc. XX), Vol. 4 of História da Ciência, da Tecnologia e da Medicina em Portugal, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões (series editors). Lisboa: Tinta da China: 143-160. https://tintadachina.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Historia-da-Ciencia_vol_4_verinterior.pdf
4. Amaral, I., 2020. Portuguese tropical medicine and international networks: a global health governance project in the 20th century. Vesaluis, Journal of the International Society for the History of Medicine, Vol. XXVI, June 2020, e-supplement: 247-262.
5. Amaral, I. 2018. “Portuguese Tropical Medicine in the Twentieth Century: Tensions between the Metropole and the Colonies.” In Poonam Bala ed.). Learning from Empire: Medicine, Knowledge and Transfers under Portuguese Rule, edited by, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 97–121. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-1592-5-sample.pdf