Sílvia Portugal
Biography
PhD in Sociology, University of Coimbra. Assistant Professor at School of Economics, University of Coimbra. CES Ombudswoman (2021-2024). Her research discusses the relations between formal and informal welfare, using network analysis. She's been studying family role in Portuguese social welfare system, giving special focus to women's work. Her more recent interests and research focus on the theme of disability, mental illness and chronicity. Edited: Citizenship, Public Policy and Social Networks (IUC, 2011); Mental Disease, Institutions and Families. The challenges of deinstitutionalization in Portugal, with Pedro Hespanha et al. (Almedina, 2012); Families and Social Networks (Almedina, 2014), Experience, Health, Chronicity: a socio-anthropological perspective, with Reni Barsaglini and Lucas Melo (FIOCRUZ/IUC, 2021); Health reinvented: New perspectives on the medicalization of life, with Tiago Pires Marques (Almedina, 2021); Mental Health and Human Rights in Portugal and Brazil, with Tiago Pires Marques (CES/IUC, 2025).
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Book Chapter
Pires Marques, Tiago; Portugal, Sílvia (2025), A emancipação na saúde mental: uma problemática histórica contemporânea, global e local., in Tiago Pires Marques; Sílvia Portugal (org.), Saúde Mental e Direitos Humanos em Portugal e no Brasil HISTÓRIA, EPISTEMOLOGIAS, POLÍTICAS E ATIVISMOS. Coimbra: IUC, 9-16
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Portugal, Sílvia; Pires Marques, Tiago (2025), Do ativismo ao associativismo disciplinado: a Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Depressivos e Bipolares, in Tiago Pires Marques; Sílvia Portugal (org.), Saúde Mental e Direitos Humanos em Portugal e no Brasil HISTÓRIA, EPISTEMOLOGIAS, POLÍTICAS E ATIVISMOS. Coimbra: IUC, 259-286
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Marques, Tiago Pires; Portugal, Sílvia (orgs.) (2025), Saúde Mental e Direitos Humanos em Portugal e no Brasil: História, Epistemologias, Políticas e Ativismos. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
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