Cesina (Bermudes) Borges Adães Bermudes (1908 - 2001)

Born 20 May 1908 in Anjos, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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Cesina Bermudes was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She was a medical doctor and fought for women's rights.

Cesina Borges Adães Bermudes was born on May 20, 1908 in Anjos, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.^[1] Her parents were Félix Redondo Adães Bermudes and Cândida Emília dos Reis Borges.

She died in 2001.

Research Notes

• Paulino, Maria Clara. "She Thought It" (SheThoughtIt.ilcml.com), as viewed 23 May 2020
  • Cesina was born on the 20th of May 1908 in Lisbon, Portugal. She died on the 9th of December 2001, also in Lisbon, at the age of ninety-three.
  • Occupation: Obstetrics, political activism
  • She was a member of the Portuguese Theosophical Society
  • Cesina taught specialized Obstretics in Lisbon in 1937. She used new techniques of birthing without pain.
  • Her father was also a Theosophist, and was a writer and playwright.
  • In 1948 she was one of the leaders of the Women's Electoral Committee in Lisbon.
  • Her parents were Félix Bermudes and Cândida Bermudes, both well educated and prominent citizens.
  • Cesina was only eleven years old when she decided to become a doctor. She was the first woman in Portugal to get a Ph.D. in medicine.
  • She had several articles published in medical journals, including “Scientific Bases for the Labor and Birth Without Pain” (1955).^[2]
• Dicionário de Mulheres Celebres de Américo, Cesina Bermuda, Um Movimento de Mulheres em Movimento (mdm.org.pt) viewed 23 May 2020.
  • Cesina was born on the 20th of May 1908 in Anjos, Lisbon, Portugal. She died on the 9th of December 2001, also in Lisbon, at the age of ninety-three.
  • Cesina was the daughter of playwright and essayist Félix Bermudes, and Cândida Bermudes, an educated woman.
  • Cesina attended Liceu Camões, and was the only girl that graduated with a medical degree.
  • Cesina practiced Obstretics in 1933, at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital. She received her doctorate in 1947, specializing in Obstetrics. Cesina was the first Portuguese woman to gain a Ph.D.^[3]
  • “All of her long and extraordinary life (from Cesina) was dedicated to erasing the nightmare of classical, Judeo-Christian childbirth..." ^[4]
  • Cesina was a skater, cyclist and gymnast in her younger years.
  • Description: a skinny woman, with her usual hairstyle, a braid framing her small face and lively look.

Sources

1. ↑ "Batismo de Cesina", 1908/7/24. Paróquia de Anjos, Lisboa, Lisboa 1589/1911. Livro de registos de batismos 1908/1908, PT/TT/PRQ/PLSB06/001/B49, fl142v. image m0023, image m0024. Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisboa, Portugal. https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=5933044 .
2. ↑ BERMUDES, Cesina, 1955, “Bases científicas do parto sem dor”, Jornal do Médico, 28: 1-17.
3. ↑ Esteves, João; Zília Osório de Castro (2013). Feminae: Contemporary Dictionary . Lisbon: CIG. 925 pages.
4. ↑ Graça Mexia, 45 years old and 38,000 pregnant women later , Página a Página, Lisbon, 2009

• Bermudes, Cesina. "Portugal People," Portugal-info (portugal-info.net : accessed 25 June 2018), listing Portuguese famous women, source unknown.

• Wikipedia: Cesina Bermudes
• Wikidata: Item Q19704367, pt:Wikipedia

See Also:

• “Cesina Borges Adães Bermudes, * 1908 | Geneall.Net.” Accessed September 16, 2023. https://geneall.net/pt/nome/526370/cesina-borges-adaes-bermudes/.

• MEXIA, Graça. 45 anos e 38 000 grávidas depois, Página a Página, Lisboa, 2009.