Sílvia Portugal
Biography
PhD in Sociology, University of Coimbra. Assistant Professor at School of Economics, University of Coimbra. 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) and Health reinvented: New perspectives on the medicalization of life, with Tiago Pires Marques (Almedina, 2021).
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Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Faria, Marina Dias de; Portugal, Sílvia (2023), "Migração, gênero e maternidade: narrativas autobiográficas de mulheres que emigraram do Brasil", ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, 47, 205-222
Read moreBook Chapter
Fontes, Fernando; Portugal, Sílvia (2023), Deficiência e Vida Independente em Portugal: a experiência do projeto-piloto de Lisboa, in Fernando Fontes; Bruno Sena Martins (org.), A deficiência em Portugal: Lugares, corpos e lutas. Coimbra: IUC
Book Chapter
Portugal, Sílvia; Alves, Joana; Fontes, Fernando (2023), O paradoxo da medicalização da deficiência em Portugal, in Fernando Fontes; Bruno Sena Martins (org.), A deficiência em Portugal: Lugares, corpos e lutas. Coimbra: IUC, 57-82