Scientific misconduct, a global problem

Nicholas Steneck, Director of the Research, Ethics and Integrity Program at the University of Michigan, talked about plagiarism and data falsification in a recent event at Fapesp, São Paulo. Watch the video.

Producing scientific knowledge in intercultural contexts

Kapil Raj, historian of science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, discussed the construction of science in intercultural encounters at Fiocruz.

The role of social science in a changing world

Watch a video interview with Craig Calhoun, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, to Fapesp, São Paulo.

European knowlege and local medical practices in India

Kapil Raj, associated professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will lecture at Fiocruz next Thursday, August 14h.

Brazilian health reform: an historical approach

The complex and fascinating process of emergence of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil in the late 80s is thoroughly examined by Paulo Henrique de Almeida Rodrigues

Vol. 21 • n.2 • Apr.-Jun. 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS From measuring the rural to the rural made to measure: social representations in perspective Anjos, Flávio Sacco dos; Caldas, Nádia Velleda · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese From application to implication in medical anthropology: political,...