ANALYSIS
La dansarina: the influenza epidemic and the quotidian report of Rio de Janeiro city
Nara Azevedo de Brito
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Causality and epidemiology
Rita Barradas Barata
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An island of scientific competence: a history of Brazil’s Institute of Agricultural Chemistry in the memory of its scientists
Lina Rodrigues de Faria
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From contagion to transmission: a change in how epidemics are perceived
Dina Czeresnia
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Technoscientific nihilism, moral holism, and V R. Potter ‘global bioethics’
Fermin Roland Schramm
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DEBATE
Cloning: creator and creatures headed towards possible worlds
1º debate: Susana Schild, Luiz Alberto de Oliveira, LuIs David Castiel, Paulo Vaz, Waldemar Zusman
2º debate: Paulo Affonso Leme Machado, Marli de Albuquerque, Win Degrave, Orlando Ferreira Junior, Marcos Segre, Leila M. Oda
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SOURCES
On board the Republic: a personal diary of the Oswaldo Cruz expedition to Brazil’s maritime and river ports
Ana Luce Girão Soares de Lima
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IMAGES
The visible face of Aids
Dilene Raimundo do Nascimento
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Salud, cultura y sociedad en América Latina: nuevas perspectivas históricas by Marcos Cueto (org.) •reviewed by Luiz Antônio de Castro Santos
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Picturing health and illness: images of identity and difference by Sander L. Gilman
• reviewed by Francisco Inácio Bastos
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Do contágio à transmissão: ciência e cultura na gênese do conhecimento epidemiológico
byDina Czeresnia
• reviewed by Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr.
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THESES
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