“Unhappy” horses: surra and biosocial relations in Pará (1870-1889)
This article analyzes the infestation of the disease surra, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma evansi, among horses that were used for raising cattle in Pará, between 1870-1889, and the efforts of human and non-human actors to combat it. When investigating documents such as newspapers and reports f...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência (SBHC) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.rbhciencia.emnuvens.com.br:article/871 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://rbhciencia.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/871 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Trypanosoma evansi cavalos humanos história ambiental Pará horses humans environmental history |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the infestation of the disease surra, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma evansi, among horses that were used for raising cattle in Pará, between 1870-1889, and the efforts of human and non-human actors to combat it. When investigating documents such as newspapers and reports from provincial presidents, from the perspective of environmental history and the history of animals, one perceives a diversity of agents involved in this fight, treatment attempts related to scientific medicine and/or popular medicine, change of sensitivity in relation to horses and the intensification of the debate about the importance of science in Brazil. |
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