ANALYSIS
Assisted birth in 19th century Bahia
Maria Renilda Nery Barreto
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Women, the press, and hygiene: the medicalization of birth in Bahia (1910-1927)
Marivaldo Cruz do Amaral
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The Spanish Flu epidemic: a challenge to Bahian medicine
Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
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Joanna de Sá: medicine, politics and morality in the pages of O Monitor
Vera Nathália Silva de Tarso
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“The ‘asylum’, an undeniable need in social organization”: questions about the commitment questionnaire at the São João de Deus Asylum
Venetia Durando Braga Rios
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Pharmaceutical practice in Bahia in the latter half of the 19th century
Tânia Salgado Pimenta and Ediná Alves Costa
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Antônio Moniz de Souza, the ‘man of Brazilian nature’: science and medicinal plants in the early 19th century
Laura Carvalho dos Santos
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Control of health risks in radiodiagnosis: a historic approach
Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Navarro, Handerson Jorge Dourado Leite, Josemir da Cruz Alexandrino and Ediná Alves Costa
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The Instituto de Matemárica e Física at the Universidade da Bahia: mathematical activities (1960-1968)
André Luís Mattedi Dias
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Juliano Moreira and the Gazeta Medica da Bahia
Ronaldo Ribeiro Jacobina and Ester Aida Gelman
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SOURCES
‘Our mulattos are more exuberant’
Mariza Corrêa
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Métissage, dégénérescence et crime
Nina Rodrigues
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Race crossing, degenaration, and crime
Nina Rodrigues
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Sources of interest to the history and culture of health: Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Salvador
Maria Teresa Navarro de Britto Matos and Adriana Sousa Silva
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RESEARCH NOTES
Scientific activities under the Portuguese Empire: a study of the works of Manuel Ferreira da Câmara, ‘metalworker by profession’ – 1783-1820
Alex Gonçalves Varela
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BOOKS AND NETWORKS
Political readings of slavery in Portuguese America
• review by Anderson José Machado de Oliveira on Fragmentos setecentistas: escravidão, cultura e poder na América portuguesa, by Silvia Hunold Lara
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Cultural life in Recife
• review by Lucia Lippi Oliveira on O movimento e a linha: presença do Teatro do Estudante e do Gráfico Amador no Recife (1946-1964), by Flávio Weinstein Teixeira
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