IX Science with Acarajé discusses Medical Ecology

The Biomedicine course, through its Tutorial Education Program (PET), held another edition of Ciência com Acarajé and, this time, it received professor Dr. Fernando Dias de Ávila Pires, who held a mini-course on the 8th and 9th of May and an introductory lecture in the evening of the 8th with the theme of Medical Ecology. The program also included the exhibition "Panoramas da Alma", by professor Luis Sergio Santos Nunes.

According to the speaker, medical ecology is not an independent discipline, "it is part of another discipline called human ecology, which brings the principles of ecology applied to human populations. This differs from general ecology, because of the characteristic of humanity that is the culture". On the subject, Dr. Fernando Dias also emphasizes that medical ecology observes the environmental factors that favor the appearance of what becomes endemic in populations. It differs, therefore, from epidemiology, "since it considers man as an object - the human population, the origin and spread of the disease. In medical ecology "it is just one of the factors of the considered environment. So, we started with the study of environmental factors and not by man.” The professor also highlights the study of MS as the basis for the prevention of 40% of diseases.

Panoramas of the Soul
Sharing a little of yourself, through your way of seeing the world, was the starting point of Prof. Dr. Luis Sergio Santos Nunes for the conception of the exhibition Panoramas da Alma. He says that he always liked photography and traveling, both inside and outside Brazil. Sharing these experiences through his photographic records never lived up to his expectations. "The idea was to try to pass on to my friends, my family, people I care about, a little of what I'm feeling. So I started to have another look. I saw once that a photo reveals more of the photographer than the place. So I started looking for angles that were dear to me and that could convey to others what I was feeling", he explains.

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