ANALYSIS
Swamps, men and crabs in Josué de Castro: meanings and their unfolding
DJALMA AGRIPINO DE MELO FILHO
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The institutionalization of epidemiology as a subject at Rio de Janeiro Federal University Medical School
CARLOS HENRIQUE DUARTE ALVES TORRES and DINA CZERESNIA
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Lobotomy and leucotomy in Brazilian mental hospitals
ANDRÉ LUIS MASIERO
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Science and racism: a critical look on Raça e assimilação in Oliveira Vianna
JAIR DE SOUZA RAMOS
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Nutritional education: from ignorance to social representations in post-graduation by Rio de Janeiro (1980-98)
ERONIDES DA SILVA LIMA, CELINA SZUCHMACHER OLIVEIRA and MARIA DO CARMO REBELLO GOMES
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A post-normal scientific look at aphthous fever as an epizootic disease
GABRIEL EDUARDO SCHÜTZ and CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS
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Brazilian mini-computers in the 1970’s: a democratic market reserve during the authoritarian dictatorship
IVAN DA COSTA MARQUES
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IMAGES
“The living are always, and more and more, governed by the dead”: study on the inequalities in dying
STELA N. MENEGHEL, CLAÍDES ABBEG and RONALDO BASTOS
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SOURCES
Marie Rennotte, educator and medical doctor: elements for a historical and biographical, social and medical study
LEONORA DE LUCA and JOÃO BOSCO ASSIS DE LUCA
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RESEARCH NOTE
Playing with space: a proposal for SUS Technical Health Schools
LUISA REGINA PESSOA
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
A race or a duel?
• reviewed by GUILHERME JOSÉ DA SILVA E SÁ on Decifrando o genoma: a corrida para desvendar o DNA humano byKEVIN DAVIES
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Washing up Rio
• reviewed by JEANNE MARIE GAGNEBIN on O Rio em movimento — quadros médicos e(m) história: 1890-1920 by MYRIAM BAHIA LOPES
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Scientists’ discourse
• reviewed by JOSIMAR JORGE VENTURA DE MORAIS on A ciência: Deus ou diabo?
by GUITTA PESSIS-PASTERNACK
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The Empire and its scientific practices
• resenha de MARCUS VINICIUS DE FREITAS sobre Ciência, civilização e império nos trópicos
de ALDA HEIZER
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Viruses, sciences and men
• reviewed by LUIZ ANTONIO TEIXEIRA on Gripe, a história da pandemia de 1918
by GINA KOLATA
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A study on mineral production by scientist José Vieira Couto at Capitania de Minas Gerais at the beginning of the 19th century
• reviewed by ALEX GONÇALVES VARELA on O desvendar do grande livro da natureza: um estudo da obra do mineralogista José Vieira Couto, 1798-1805 by CLARETE PARANHOS DA SILVA
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Changing travelers’ directions
• reviewed by MARIA MARGARET LOPES on Histoire naturelle et voyages scientifiques (1780-1830)
by LORELAI B. KURY
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THESES
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