Resumen de Epidemics in the news: health and hygiene as seen by the daily press in periods of crisis
Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida
As part of a larger project focused on producing a History of the Popularization of Science and Technology in Portugal, my aim is to find out how scientific knowledge reached the common people, using newspapers as the main source of information. This research is being developed in the project «Reading newspapers: An open window to representations of Science and Technology in the Portuguese Press (1900-1926)». Considering the population’s limited access to written material, nevertheless each newspaper could be read daily by an estimate 30,000 people in Lisbon, which places this source as probably the most widespread vehicle to divulge the latest scientific news at the time to an unspecialised audience.
