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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Paula Torres Estrela Salgueiro Baço
Date of birth
1965/09/14
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Baço, Maria
  • Basso, Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1A1F-7D64-0794
ORCID iD
0009-0000-8210-8952

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09 - 2025/12
Ongoing
 PhD in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Nova School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA, Portugal
1990
Concluded
 Specialization in Museology and Artistic Heritage (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
1984 - 1988
Concluded
 História (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/10/27 - Current Member of the Board of Trustees Fundação Casa Hermes, Museu da Medicina e Saude, Portugal
Fundação Casa Hermes, Museu da Medicina e Saude, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1990/09/01 - Current Curator Associação Nacional das Farmácias, Portugal
Museu da Farmácia , Portugal
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Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Basso, Paula. The Pharmaceutical Ceramics and the Art of Healing. Lisboa, Portugal: CTT -Collector's Edition Club Post Office. 2009.
    Published
  2. Araújo, Luís Manuel; Basso, Paula. The Pharmacy in the World: Pre-classic and the Traditional Cultures. Media Books. 2008.
    Published
  3. Basso, Paula. Pharmacy and Medicines- a Concise History. Lisboa, Portugal: CTT -Collector's Edition Club Post Office. 2004.
    Published
  4. Basso, Paula. Portuguese Pharmacy. Lisboa, Portugal: INAPA. 2000.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Basso, Paula. "The first AIDS patients in Portugal: Odette Ferreira's records of patient data and LAV (HIV) detection tests (1984-1987).". In Olhares Cruzados sobre a história da saúde da Idade Média à contemporaneidade, edited by Lab2PT Coleção Paisagens, Património & Território / Investigação Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Collection / Researc, 248-271. Braga: Universidade do Minho. Laboratório de Paisagens, Património e Território (Lab2PT), 2022.
    Published
  2. Basso, Paula. "The Royal Hospital Apothecary". In Royal Hospital of All Saints: The City and Health, edited by Editorial Center of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, 477-485. Lisboa, Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  3. Basso, Paula. "The Conventual Pharmaceutical Ceramics". In The Spledour of Austerity, a thousand years of entrepreneurship of the Orders and Congregations in Portugal: Arts, Culture and Heritage, 301-303. Lisboa, Portugal: INCM, 2011.
    Published
  4. Neto, João. "Pharmacy Museum - The identity of a Profession". In History of the Twenty Years of MONAF, Pharmaceutical Solidarity Exercise, 86-107. Lisboa, Portugal: Inapa, 2005.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Basso, Paula. "Thirty years of the Syringe Exchange Program in Portugal: the intervention of pharmacies in a successful case in the fight against AIDS". Paper presented in 82nd FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2024.
  2. Basso, Paula. "The First Patients with AIDS in Portugal and the HIV-2 discover: Odette Santos-Ferreira’s Laboratory Notebooks of Patient Data and LAV (HIV) Detection Tests.  ". Paper presented in 81st FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Basso, Paula. Treasures of the Pharmacy Museum. Associação Nacional das Farmácias, 2019.
  2. Basso, Paula. Pharmacy Museum - Global Museum 20 + 1. Associação Nacional das Farmácias, 2017.
  3. Basso, Paula. The Royal Convent of Christ of Tomar Apothecary. Direção Geral do Património Cultural, 2016.
  4. Basso, Paula. Vasco da Gama and India. Paris: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian. Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian,, 1998.
  5. Basso, Paula. The São Vicente de Fora Apothecary. 1994.
  6. Basso, Paula. The Mortar and Pharmacy - Brief History. 1991.
Journal article
  1. Basso, Paula. "The enigma of the mystery patients at Egas Moniz Hospital and the discovery of LAV-2 (HIV-2)". ANAIS do IHMT 23 1 (2024): 120-129. https://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/484.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Basso, Paula. "The Pharmaceutical Revolution", Vision History Magazine, 2017

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. Exposição Fotográfica de Sandra Ventura. 2024. "The Art of Ageing - Giving More Life to the Years".
  2. 2023. "30 years of the Syringe Exchange Programme, 1993-2023. The role of portuguese pharmacies in the fight against AIDS".
  3. 2023. "Through the labyrinths of Portuguese medical history in the 19th and 20th centuries". In Through the labyrinths of Portuguese medical history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  4. 2022. "Pharmacies against COVID-19 - Freedom in Safety".
  5. 2019. "Odette Ferreira, Building Futures".
  6. 2017. "Pharmacy Museum - Global 20 + 1 Museum". In Pharmacy Museum - Global 20 + 1 Museum.
  7. 2016. "Royal Convent of Thomar Apothecary".
  8. 2015. "Islamic Pharmacy of the Ottoman Empire.".
  9. 2014. "Pharmacy and Portuguese Expansion - The Scientific Contribution of Apothecaries in Portuguese Expansion".
  10. 2014. "Pharmacy - The Millennial Art of Healing".
  11. 2012. "Pharmacy at Lifetime of Anibal Cunha (1868-1931)". In Pharmacy at Lifetime of Anibal Cunha (1868-1931).
  12. 2011. "Roald Amundsen - The World's First Man at the South Pole".
  13. 2010. "Pharmacy Museum - 500 million years of Universal History Health". In Treasures of the Pharmacy Museum.
  14. 2010. "HIV-AIDS - Reality and Human Dimension".
  15. 2009. "The Fight Against Tuberculosis - Global Emergency".
  16. 2001. "Pharmacy in the World - 5000 Years of History". In Treasures of the Pharmacy Museum.
  17. 1996. "Pharmacy Museum - Pharmacy in Portugal".
  18. 1994. "the Monastery of St. Vincent Apothecary integrated in the exhibition Eight Centuries of Portuguese Missionary Work-Meeting of Cultures.". In Eight Centuries of Portuguese Missionary Work-Meeting of Cultures.
  19. 1991. "The Mortar and Pharmacy". In Mortar and Pharmacy.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/10 The responses of public health authorities to HIV/AIDS infection in Portugal, 1985-2000. 2nd International Conference on The History of Health: Epidemiology And Health Infrastructure In European History (19th-21st Century)
CIUHCT, Lab2PT/IN2PAST – Universidade do Minho, COST (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/01/24 Pharmacy Museum: the role of health museums in current societies I Colóquio Museus da Saúde e a Literacia em Saúde
Núcleo Museológico do Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais (Tocha, Cantanhede, Portugal)
2023/06/16 The Enigma of the Mystery Patients of the Egas Moniz Hospital and the Discovery of HIV-2. 5th Luso-Brazilian Congress on the History of Tropical Medicine.
CIUHCT, Lab2PT/IN2PAST – Universidade do Minho, NIESP/Fiocruz (Lisboa and Braga, Portugal)
2023/05/25 Pharmacy Museum preserving the past, intervening in the present, shaping the future II Seminário de Património Cultura olhar o passado, pensar o presente e perspetivar o futuro
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/10/13 The first AIDS patients in Portugal: Odette Santos-Ferreira's laboratory notebooks and their importance for the discovery of HIV-2 I Seminário Internacional de História da Saúde
Instituto de História Contemporânea — NOVA FCSH, LAB2PT — Universidade do Minho e Instituto de Ciências Sociais — Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2017/10 Illness and Cure in Pharmaceutical Advertising Healing Arts II - Preventing, caring and curing: The look of the Humanities
FCSH/NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/01 Pharmacy and Medicines Through the Ages
Hospital and University Center of Coimbra - CHUC, (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014 Pharmaceutical Advertising 1870-2008 Seminar Science and History in Anibal Cunha time
UP (Porto, Portugal)
2012/03 The importance of inventories in the characterization of the pharmaceutical profession and pharmacy space: The Apothecary self-assessment of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon Colloquium "Inventories, Books and Science." Initiative under the R & D project "Dioscorides and Portuguese Humanism: the reviews Amato Lusitano 'the Language Centre and Cultures of the University of Aveiro
University of Aveiro and Aveiro Museum (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012/02 Bezoars and Unicorns, Poisons and Antidotes in the Pharmacy Museum collection Seminar Bezoar and Unicorn: Between Myth and History, Art and Science
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2006 The Evolution of Concepts of Health to Long History
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/10/30 - 2024/12/11 2nd International Conference on The History of Health: Epidemiology And Health Infrastructure In European History (19th-21st Century) (2024/12/09 - 2024/12/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Departamento de História, Portugal

Museu da Farmácia , Portugal
2017/11 - 2017/11 I Heritage, Science and Health Meeting: Intervening, Knowing, Preserving and Valuing, dedicated to the theme of heritage in Museums and Science and Health Sciences Institutions in the Lisbon metropolitan area, within the scope of the Heritage, Science and Health Network (2017/11 - 2017/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Heritage, Science and Health Network , Portugal
2016/10 - 2016/10 Congress of History of Health Sciences, dedicated to the theme PHARMAKON - From the combat of disease to the invention of immortality (2016/10 - 2016/10) Prometheus Institute , Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03 Colloquium The Healing Arts - traditional medicines in the twenty-first century (2016/03 - 2016/03)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2010/08 - 2010/08 Session History of Pharmacy in FIP in 2010 (2010/08 - 2010/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) , Netherlands
2006/05 - 2006/05 EMYA 2006 - The Best European Museum of the Year Award - European Museum of the Year Award. Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola of Belgium and is under the auspices of the European Council (2006/05 - 2006/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The Pharmacy Museum, Portugal

European Museum Forum (EMF), Belgium
2004/09 - 2004/09 Conference - What caused the Black Death by Professor Christopher Duncan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool (2004/09 - 2004/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The Pharmacy Museum, Portugal
2004/06 - 2004/06 III International Conference on Health in Space-Health care in the Russian space missions with the Russian Cosmonaut Prof. Dr. Boris Morukov (2004/06 - 2004/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The Pharmacy Museum, Portugal
2003/03 - 2003/03 Conference - Biomedical Research in Space, Prof. Dr. Richard Williams, NASA's Chief Health and Medical Officer in Health and Medicine and responsible for overseeing the medical aspects of all NASA missions involving humans. (2003/06 - 2003/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The Pharmacy Museum, Portugal
2002/06 - 2002/06 The Conference Space Research in the Health Area and its Practical Applications with NASA, with Prof. Arnauld Nicogossian, Administrator for Life and Microgravity, Sciences and Applications (2002/06 - 2002/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The Pharmacy Museum, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/06/27 - 2024/06/27 Participation in Prof Isabel Amaral's lecture
Conference
 Through the labyrinths of the history of Portuguese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, giving voice to the objects of an exhibition’
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/10/21 - 2021/10/22 Moderation of the Hygiene and Public Health session
Seminar
 II Meeting of the Science and Health Heritage Network, PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE: HERITAGE IN DEBATE, On-line
Science and Health Heritage Network, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/10/27 - Current Member of the Board of Trustees
Member
 Fundação Casa Hermes, Museu da Medicina e Saude, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/02/18 - Current Consultancy in the area of establishment, conception and organization of a Museum; museology and exhibition curatorship.; collections management and inventory. Fundação Casa Hermes, Museu da Medicina e Saude, Portugal
2013/03/02 - 2013/06/02 360º Science Discovery: scientific consultant for guided visits «De Humani Corporis Fabrica» e «Cousas medicinais» Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2008 Prize for the Best Cultural Extension Service
APOM/ Portuguese Association of Museology , Portugal
2001 National Prize for Communication Design, 2001
Centro Português de Design, Portugal
1997 Award for Best Portuguese Museum
APOM/ Portuguese Association of Museology , Portugal

Other distinction

2004 European Museum of the Year Award - Nominated Museum
European Museum Forum (EMF), Belgium