War Hecatomb

Helena da Silva is an historian and a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University of Lisbon. She is currently responsible for the research project Medical and Healthcareservices in the First World War (IF/00631/2014/CP1221/CT0004). She has published several articles on health history, particularly about hospitals and the professionalization of nursing.Paulo Teodoro de Matos is an historian, Assistant Professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE–IUL). His main research activities are related to Historical Demography, Social History, and History of the Portuguese Expansion. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project "Counting Colonial Populations. Demography and the uses of statistic in the Portuguese empire, 1776-1875".José Miguel Sardica is an historian teaching at the School of Human Sciences and at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal, and member of its Research Center for Commu-nication and Culture. His research areas are the 19th and 20th century Portuguese and international history, in the political, institutional, cultural, and intellectual/media fields.

• Historiography – demography – history of health – mentalities – World War I