O eurocentrismo na historiografia e no ensino de história das ciências: a representação fílmica da medicina islâmica

Abstract

The present research carries out an investigation of historical culture by analyzing of the historiography of sciences and the German movie ‘Der Medicus’ (2013), by the German director Philipp Stölzl, inspired by the book ‘The Physician’ (1986), writing by the American journalist Noah Gordo. This fictional narrative presentes the life of an 11th-century English surgeon-barber who makes a journey to the Persian city of Ispahan (in present-day Iran) to study medicine in an Islamic madrasah, headed by the great polymath Ibn Sina, better known as Avicenna (980 -1037), who profoundly influenced European medicine from the following century. A theoretical investigation was carried out on Eurocentrism as a category of analysis and its problems for research and teaching of History. The film presented, as well as other elements of media culture, were interpreted by the concepts of Eurocentric diffusionism, negative orientalization and medievalization, providing an analysis of the movie and elements for didatic intervantions with the objective to improve historical learning according to the discussions in the field of History Didatics.