ANALYSIS
Poison and the mosquito: epistemological aspects of the etiology and prophylactics of yellow fever
SANDRA CAPONI
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Gilberto Freyre, environmental history and ‘rurbanization’
JOSÉ MARCOS FROEHLICH
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Tuberculosis throughout the times
HELEN GONÇALVES
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The construction of the “sick-subject” in RSI
MARILENE AFFONSO ROMUALDO VERTHEIN and CARLOS MINAYO-GOMEZ
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Water pipelines conduits and urban sanitation in Cartagena in the beginning of the twentieth century
ÁLVARO LEÓN CASAS ORREGO
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Richard Spruce, botanist-South America’s explorerl
MARK R. D. SEAWARD
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History and nature in von Martius: scanning Brazil to build a nation
MANOEL LUIZ SALGADO GUIMARÃES
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IMAGES
Agudás – from Africans in Brazil to ‘Brazilians’ in Africa
MILTON GURAN
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RESEARCH NOTE
Videographies of the heart: an ethnographic study of the cardiac catheterization
ROSANA HORIO MONTEIRO and LÉA VELHO
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DOSSIER TRANSGENICS
INTRODUCTIONS
GMOs on the menu: crack them before eating! …
LUISA MASSARANI
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PING-PONG
Much ado about nothing
FRANCISCO SALZANO talks to Luiza Massarani
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The scientific community is in doubt
Depoimento de GLACI ZANCAN
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ANALYSIS
Transgenics and controlled evolution
JOÃO LÚCIO DE AZEVEDO, MARIA HELENA PELEGRINELLI FUNGARO and MARIA LÚCIA CARNEIRO VIEIRA
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A technology with multiple applications
MÁRCIA MARGIS PINHEIRO, LILIANE GERHARDT and ROGÉRIO MARGIS
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Implications of transgenics for environmental and agricultural sustainability
RUBENS ONOFRE NODARI e MIGUEL PEDRO GUERRA
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Transgenics without manichaeism
SILVIO VALLE
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Transgenic plants: the future of sustainable agriculture
ANTÔNIO RODRIGUES CORDEIRO
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The critical scientists’ voice
FLAVIO LEWGOY
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INTERVIEWS
Transgenics and productivity in the Brazilian agriculture
Interview by PAULO CAVALCANTI GOMES FERREIRA
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Concerns over transgenic soybean
Interview by BERNARDO BEIGUELMAN
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A change in the scientific Paradigm
Interview by LEILA ODA
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PUBLIC OPINION
Public opinion on transgenics
LUISA MASSARANI
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CHRONOLOGY
A chronology from newspaper clippings
RENATA MENASCHE
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GLOSSARY
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TIPS
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