Drugs in ads and news: educating people in the nineteenth century press
Journal: Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)
Year: 2011

This research aims at finding out how scientific knowledge reached the common people in nineteenth century Portugal, using newspapers as the main source of information. Collecting news on science and technology is part of a larger research project focused on producing a History of the Popularization of Science and Technology in Portugal, following a model already developed in the UK and the USA (Bauer 2007). This source was probably the most widespread vehicle to divulge the latest scientific ne