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Palmira Fontes da Costa. Completed the Doutoramento in History of Science in 2000 by University of Cambridge and Licenciatura in Biochemistry in 1989 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Is Assistant Professor in Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas. Published 15 articles in journals. Has 13 section(s) of books and 7 book(s). Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Invited Scientist Fellow in 2 project(s).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Palmira Fontes da Costa

Citation names

  • Fontes da Costa, Palmira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6E18-B7B9-454C
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9477-9040

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2000
Concluded
 History of Science (Doutoramento)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"The Experience of the Singular at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth century" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
1989
Concluded
 Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Study of the RNA Expression of the ASF Virus (Gulbenkian Institute of Science)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000/08/20 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2007 - 2019 Full Member Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
1995/10/02 - 2000/06/22 Ph.D Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2012 - 2015 The view of nature in the medico-philosophical thought at the transition from the 17th to the 18th century
PTDC/FIL-FCI/116843/2010
Invited Scientist Fellow
Concluded
2007 - 2011 Philosophy, Medicine, and Society
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/64863/PT
Invited Scientist Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. Ciência, Ética e Cidadania: Reflexões de Cientistas Nobel. Portugal: Edição de Autor. 2015.
    Published • Editor
  2. Barreira-Silva, Palmira. Percursos na história do livro médico. Portugal: Colibri. 2011.
    Editor
  3. Neubauer, Vanessa. Manifesto para uma nova química: O Discurso Preliminar de Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Portugal: EDITORA CRV. 2011.
    10.24824/978854440111.8 • Editor
  4. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. Corpo, poesia e a afecto. Portugal: Colibri. 2010.
    Editor
  5. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2009.
  6. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. Ciência e Bioarte: Encruzilhadas e Desafios Éticos. 2007.
    Editor
  7. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. O Corpo Insólito: Dissertações sobre Monstros no Portugal do Século XVIII. Porto Editora. 2005.
    Editor
Book chapter
  1. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "The Beauty and Perfection of Monsters". 167-176. Portugal, 2016.
    Published
  2. Costa, Palmira. "Palmira Fontes da Costa, “Os monstros e a criatividade da natureza”, in Manuel Valente Alves, Adelino Cardoso, eds., Catálogo da Exposição Autómato Vivo. A Vida, um Artefacto Natural?, (Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus, 2015), pp. 64 – 69.". 2015.
  3. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Introduction". 1-10. United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2015.
    Published
  4. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Identity and the construction of memory in representations of Garcia de Orta". 237-265. United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2015.
  5. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Os jardins de Garcia de Orta". In Botânica, Medicina e Cultura nos Colóquios de Garcia de Orta, 9-30. Portugal: Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015.
    Published
  6. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "A representação do corpo hermafrodita no século XVIII". Portugal: Fim de século, 2012.
  7. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "The Introduction of the Linnean classification of nature in Portugal". In Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century, 231-248. Germany: Mouton de Gruyer, 2011.
  8. Costa, Palmira Fontes da. "The meaning of monstrosities in Charles Darwin’s understanding of the origin of species". In Darwin, evolution, evolutionisms, 69-83. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011.
    10.14195/978-989-26-0342-1_8
  9. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Os livros e a ordem do saber médico: Perspectiva historiográfica". 13-32. Portugal: Colibri, 2011.
    Published
  10. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Livros sobre monstros e prodígios". 63-78. Portugal, 2010.
    Published
  11. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Women and the Popularisation of Botany in Early Nineteenth Portugal: The Marquesa de Alorna´s Botanical Recreations". 43-63. United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2009.
  12. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Portuguese Imperial Science: A Historiographical Review". 35-53. United States: Stamford University Press, 2008.
    Published
  13. da Costa, Palmira Fontes. "‘Mediating Sexual Difference’: the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England". In Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine, 127-147. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004.
    10.1057/9780230287594_8
Book review
  1. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "José Pinto de Azeredo. Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799).". 108, (2017): 702-703.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Costa, Palmira. Botânica, Medicina e Cultura nos Colóquios de Garcia de Orta (Botany, Medicine and Culture in Orta's Colloquies). Portugal. 2015.
  2. Costa, Palmira. Palmira Fontes da Costa, edition, Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2015).. United Kingdom: Ashgate. 2015.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Da Costa, Palmira Fontes; Pinto, Hélio. "Disputas sobre a origem e o significado dos cometas: o que revelam do Iluminismo português?". Artcultura 19 35 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/artc-v19n35-2017-2-10.
    10.14393/artc-v19n35-2017-2-10
  2. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "O lugar das imagens na percepção e entendimento do corpo monstruoso, 1550-1750". ArtCultura (2016):
  3. da Costa, P.F.; de Carvalho, T.N.. "Between east and west: Garcia de Orta's colloquies and the circulation of medical knowledge in the sixteenth century | Entre oriente y occidente: Los coloquios de garcía de Orta y la circulación del conocimiento médico en el siglo XVI". Asclepio 65 1 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879184063&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3989/asclepio.2013.08
  4. Fontes da Costa, P.. "Geographical expansion and the reconfiguration of medical authority: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563)". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 1 (2012): 74-81. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856653643&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.09.015
  5. Costa, Palmira Fontes da. "In the intimacy of thought: Darwin’s notebooks on the moral sense of man". Antropologia Portuguesa 27 (2010): 137-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-7982_27_8.
    10.14195/2182-7982_27_8
  6. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Albrecht von Haller e o debate sobre a existência de seres humanos hermafroditas". Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 66 (2010): 71-80.
    Published
  7. Da Costa, P.F.. "Secrecy, ostentation, and the illustration of exotic animals in sixteenth-century Portugal". Annals of Science 66 1 (2009): 59-82. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-60649118940&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00033790802388428
  8. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "Anatomical Expertise and the Hermaphroditic Body". Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 1 1 (2007): http://dx.doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v1i1.1016.
    10.4245/sponge.v1i1.1016
  9. Fontes da Costa, Palmira. "A visualização da natureza e o entendimento do mundo vivo". Filosofia e História da Biologia 1 (2006): 247-270.
    10.1590/s1982-45132013000200013
  10. Fontes da Costa, P.; Jesus, A.. "António Ribeiro Sanches and the circulation of medical knowledge in eighteenth-century Europe.". Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 56 156-157 (2006): 185-197. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34347225619&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  11. da Costa, Palmira. "The medical understanding of monstrous births at the Royal Society of London during the first half of the eighteenth century". History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26 2 (2004): 157-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03919710412331358335.
    10.1080/03919710412331358335
  12. Da Costa, P.F.. "Between fact and fiction: Narratives of monsters in eighteenth-century Portugal". Portuguese Studies 20 1 (2004): 63-72. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34447298974&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  13. Fontes Da Costa, P.. "The culture of curiosity at the royal society in the first half of the eighteenth century". Notes and Records of the Royal Society 56 2 (2002): 147-166. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0042919369&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rsnr.2002.0175
  14. Fontes Da Costa, P.. "The making of extraordinary facts: Authentication of singularities of nature at the Royal Society of London in the first half of the eighteenth century". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 2 (2002): 265-288. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036084047&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0039-3681(02)00012-2
  15. Costa, P.F.D.. "The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century". Endeavour 24 1 (2000): 34-39. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0342699476&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0160-9327(00)01283-7
Distinctions

Other distinction

1995 Prize "Incentive to young researchers in History of Science”
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal