ANALYSIS
Politics, actors, and interests in the process of institutional change: the creation of the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 1953
WANDA HAMILTON and CRISTINA FONSECA
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Public health in times of bureaucratization: the case of the physician Noel Nutels
CARLOS HENRIQUE ASSUNÇÃO PAIVA
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On the origin and spread of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis, based on pre- and post-Colombian historical sources
ALFREDO J. ALTAMIRANO-ENCISO, MAURO C. A. MARZOCHI, JOÃO S. MOREIRA, ARMANDO O. SCHUBACH, KEYLA B. F. MARZOCHI
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Psychiatric science and social service policy: the creation of the University of Brazil’s Institute of Psychiatry
ANA TERESA A. VENÂNCIO
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Eugenics and marriage
LUZIA AURELIA CASTAÑEDA
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Forms of subjectivation among learners: current conflicts
SILVANA MENDES LIMA and CARLOS MINAYO-GOMEZ
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Dentistry in Argentina: the history of a subordinated profession
MARTA V. SCHAPIRA
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The making of sketches of ocean fish during the “philosophical travels” (1783) to Pará and Angola
ERMELINDA MOUTINHO PATACA
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Darwin: between Paley and Democritus
GUSTAVO CAPONI
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IMAGES
The Butantan Institute’s Arthropod Laboratory and poisonous arachnids
SYLVIA LUCAS
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SOURCES
Sources for a history of the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s fifty years
ANA LUCE GIRÃO SOARES DE LIMA and MARIA MARTA SAAVEDRA PINTO
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TESTIMONY
Clarice Della Torre Ferrarini: the testimony of a pioneer in nursing management in Brazil
interview conducted by MARIA CRISTINA SANNA
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RESEARCH NOTE
The reforestation of mangrove swamps and its value in atmospheric carbon sequestrati
SÉRGIO DE MATTOS FONSECA e JOSÉ AUGUSTO DRUMMOND
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Blood, death, and plum trees: the diary of a young physician
• reviewed by CÉLIA SAKURAI, on Um médico brasileiro no front: diário de Massaki Udihara na
Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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History of psychiatric knowledge in Brazil: science and social services in debate
• reviewed by ANA TERESA A. VENÂNCIO, sobre Palácio para guardar doidos: uma história das lutas pela construção do hospital de alienados e da psiquiatria no Rio Grande do Sul, by YONISSA MARMITT WADI and Arquivos da loucura: Juliano Moreira e a descontinuidade histórica da psiquiatria,
by VERA PORTOCARRERO
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Philanthropy and social services in Brazil
• reviewed by GISELE SANGLARD on Fundação Ataulpho de Paiva — Liga Brasileira contra a Tuberculose: um século de luta, by DILENE RAIMUNDO NASCIMENTO
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The naturalization of difference
• reviewed by MONICA PIMENTA VELLOSO on Uma ciência da diferença: sexo e gênero na medicina da mulher, byFABÍOLA ROHDEN
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The quest for intelligibility in Brazilian culture: fragments of an evolutional portrait
• reviewed by RICARDO WAIZBORT on Homo brasilis: aspectos genéticos, lingüísticos, históricos e socioantropológicos da formação do povo brasileiro, by SÉRGIO J. PENA (org.)
text in portuguese
A historical overview of a contemporary epidemic: Aids and the case of Peru
• reviewed by SIMONE MONTEIRO on Culpa e coragem, historia das políticas sobre VIH/Sida em Peru, Lima, by MARCOS CUETO
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Forgotten voices: the defense of the environment in Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• reviewed by ARTHUR SOFFIATI on Um sopro de destruição: pensamento político e crítica ambiental no Brasil escravista (1786-1888), by JOSÉ AUGUSTO PÁDUA
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THESES
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