ANALYSIS
Thomas Lindley: a traveler tells of disease and how it was handled in the early nineteenth century
Alarcon Agra do Ó
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“In all homes, the moral comfort of science and of art”: the Revista Nacional de Educação and scientific dissemination in Brazil (1932-34)
Regina Horta Duarte
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Medical theories and urban management: Fortaleza’s 1877-79 drought
Maria Clélia Lustosa Costa
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The History of the Psychiatry not told by Foucault
Fernando Ferreira Pinto de Freitas
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Surgical classes in the middle of South America (1808-16)
Nauk Maria de Jesus
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IMAGES
Directions in Hospital Assistance in Rio de Janeiro (1923-31)
Gisele Sanglard and Renato da Gama-Rosa Costa
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INTERVIEW
The past revisited: the Institute of Malariology and the Institute of Rural Endemics
Ernest Paulini
text in portuguese
RESEARCH NOTE
The Social Sciences among biologists and vaccines: the hardships of study in a laboratory
Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Beyond good and evil
• reviewed by Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, on A irresponsabilidade médica, de Philippe Meyer, e Contra a desumanização da medicina: crítica sociológica das práticas médicas modernas, by Paulo Henrique Martins
text in portuguese
Evolution and culture
• reviewed by José Augusto Drummond, on Human natures — genes, cultures and the human prospect, by Paul Ehrlich
text in portuguese
The directions and misdirections of Brazilian thought
• reviewed by Isabel Lustosa, on Roteiro bibliogáfico do pensamento político-social brasileiro (1870-1965), by Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos
text in portuguese
The Social Construction of an Illness: the case of leprosy in Colombia
• reviewed by Laurinda Rosa Maciel, by Batallas contra la lepra: Estado, medicina y ciencia en Colombia,
by Diana Obregón Torres
text in portuguese
The dream-reality of the Portuguese colonial empire
• reviewed by Lúcia Lippi Oliveira, on Ecos do Atlântico Sul, by Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
text in portuguese
In search of Brazilian health
• reviewed by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva, on Caminhos da saúde pública no Brasil,
by Jacobo Finkelman (org.)
text in portuguese
The museum: a unique actor in the construction of the scientific field and of nationality in
nineteenth-century Brazil
• reviewed by Luciana Sepúlveda Köptcke, on O Ipiranga apropriado: ciência, política e poder, o Museu Paulista 1893-1922, byAna Maria Alencar Alves
text in portuguese
Public access (non-fee) internet resources for the portuguese language
Edward A. Riedinger
text in english
THESES
text in portuguese