ANALYSIS
The symbolic geopolitics of syphilis: an essay in historical anthropology
SÉRGIO CARRARA
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Historical necessity and human action in Morte e vida severina
DJALMA AGRIPINO DE MELO FILHO
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Important families and the ‘professional’ elite within Brazilian medicine
ODACI LUIZ CORADINI
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Lessons for the history of science in Brazil: São Paulo’s Pasteur Institute
MARIA ALICE ROSA RIBEIRO
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Technological risk analysis from the perspective of the social sciences
CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS e CARLOS MINAYO GOMEZ
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DEBATE
Poison and antidote: science, technology, and human risks
ARSÊNIO OSWALDO SEVÁ FILHO, JOSÉ MANOEL CARVALHO DE MELLO, LUIS DAVID CASTIEL, MARCELO FIRPO DE S. PORTO, SILVIO FUNTOWICZ, CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS (coord.)
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IMAGES
Revisiting Carlos Chagas’ Amazon
FERNANDO DUMAS DOS SANTOS e EDUARDO THIELEN
fotos de ROGÉRIO REIS e FLÁVIO DE SOUZA
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SOURCES
Project memory of psychiatry in Brazil: the Manguinhos Library’s collection of periodicals (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)
ALESSANDRA R. SANTOS, ANA C. G. GUEDES, MARILENE A. SANT’ANNA, PAULO AMARANTE, WALDIR DA S. SOUZA, LAURINDA R. MACIEL, RICARDO A. DOS SANTOS
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
A paixão transformada: história da medicina na literatura, by Moacyr Scliar
• reviewed by Nelson H. Vieira
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Tributo a Vênus: a luta contra a sífilis no Brasil, 551 da passagem do século aos anos 40,
by Sérgio Carrara
• reviewed by Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr.
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Ruína e reconstrução: Aids e drogas injetáveis na cena contemporânea, byFrancisco Inácio Bastos
• reviewed by José Ricardo de C. Mesquita Ayres
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O Brasil e a questão judaica: imigração, diplomacia e preconceito, byJeffrey Lesser
• reviewed by Mario Grynszpan
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A ferro e fogo: a história e a devastação da Mata Atlântica brasileira, byWarren Dean
• reviewed by Magali Romero sá
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THESES
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