Ana Isabel Coelho Silva
Investigador, Investigador Integrado
Biografia
Ana Isabel Coelho Silva was born in Alto Alentejo, in 1982. She has a degree in History (2004), specialized in Documentary Sciences, Archives (2006) and a PhD in Advanced Studies in History, Contemporary History branch (2018), with the thesis entitled “Social care in Portugal in the Constitutional Monarchy (1834-1910): from doctrine to practice in Alto Alentejo”, in all cases by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She has been a guest assistant professor at the same Faculty since 2020 (and also in 2008/09 and 2010/11), teaching in the Master's Degree in Cultural Heritage and Museology and the Degree in History. She has been a senior technician at the Municipality of Ponte de Sor since 2010, having been responsible for the creation of the Municipal Historical Archive (2013) and the Municipal Museum (2022), which she directs, performing functions in the fields of history and heritage. She has published some monographs, book chapters and several articles in the fields of the history of social care and health, with emphasis on the theme of misericórdias, and local history, main areas of interest and research, including the book “The art of nurse: Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca School of Nursing (1881-2004)”. Coimbra: University of Coimbra Press, 2008; the chapter “The norm and the deviation: history of the evolution of the rules of Portuguese misericórdias”. In PAIVA, José Pedro (coord.) – “Portugaliae Monumenta Misericordiarum: vol. X”. Lisboa: UMP, 2017, pp. 43-118; and several chapters in the work “História da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra (1500-2000)”, coordinated by Maria Antónia Lopes, forthcoming.
Extra
Temas e problemáticas da atividade científica
História da saúde e da assistência na época contemporânea
História local
Publicações mais relevantes no período de 2018-2023
Silva, A. I. C. (2018). Assistência a cegos pobres em Portugal no século XIX: O caso do Alto Alentejo. In M. M. L. Araújo & A. Martín García (Coords.), Os marginais (séculos XVI-XIX) (pp. 321-337). Famalicão: Edições Húmus.
Silva, A. I. C. (2024). Assistência hospitalar em Portugal no século XIX: Entre o público e o privado. In A. Nemi, A. Mota, I. dos Guimarães Sá, & M. A. Lopes (Coords.), Medicina e hospitais no espaço atlântico: transformações e continuidades entre impérios.
Silva, A. I. C. (2024). Ação social da Misericórdia de Coimbra na Época Contemporânea. In M. A. Lopes (Coord.), História da Misericórdia de Coimbra (1500-2000) (Vol. II).
Orientação de estudantes de pós-graduação no período de 2018-2023
Ana Isabel Coelho Silva
- Bizarro, Henrique João Avelar. Proposta de dinamização do património azulejar da Casa Museu Bissaya Barreto, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.