This Nucleus was formed to perform research activities and scientific promotion in anthropology of health related areas. CEAS has promoted a series of research projects in this area over the last years. This research has been directed towards medical anthropology and issues related to health, disease and strategies of cure among different gnoseological systems within multicultural contexts. Various activities are being developed on the topic of health and migration, as well as 3 postdoctoral researches. This nucleus also intends to develop advanced education by creating a Master’s Degree on the Anthropology of Health within ISCTE’s Department of Anthropology.

Projects (concluded or in process):

• A ÁGUA COMO AGENTE TERAPÊUTICO: ETNOGRAFIA COMPARADA DAS TERMAS EM PORTUGAL E NO BRASIL Water as therapy: comparative ethnography of thermal sites in Portugal and Brazil
  (Instituição proponente ICS – 2003-2005) Cristiana Bastos, Maria Manuela Quintela
• DAS TERMAS AOS SPAS: RECONFIGURAÇÕES DE UMA PRÁTICA TERAPÊUTICA (2003-2006)
  Modernization and change in Portuguese hydrotherapy
  Cristiana Bastos, Maria Manuela Quintela, António Perestrelo
• ETNOBOTÂNICA DO NORDESTE PORTUGUÊS: SABERES, PLANTAS E USOS (2005-2007)
  Ethnobotany of the Northeastern Region of Portugal: local knowledge, plants and uses (2005-2007)
  Amélia Frazão Moreira
• ESTRATÉGIAS DA DOENÇA E DA CURA NA COMUNIDADE BIJAGÓ EM LISBOA (postdoc – 2003-2005)
  Disease and strategies of cure among the Bijago community in Lisbon
  Chiara Pussetti (orientador: Robert Rowland)
• O MAL DOS OUTROS, O NOSSO SABER: PSICOPATOLOGIA DAS MIGRAÇÕES E A CONSULTA DO MIGRANTE NO HOSPITAL MIGUEL BOMBARDA (postdoc – 2006)
  Psychopatology of migrations and the Migrant Consultation of the Miguel Bombara Hospital
  Elsa Lechner