ANALYSIS
Machines and arguments: from life support technologies to the definition of brain death
Luciana Kind
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Like Moses’ staff: pathological inheritance as an argument for medical vigilance of consanguine marriage in Mexico, 1870-1900
Fabricio González Sorianos
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Impact of the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 on the general mortality profile in Boyacá, Colombia
Juan Manuel Ospina Díaz, Abel Fernando Martínez Martín, Oscar Fernando Herrán Falla
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Save for eternity: principles of medical science in the age of Montaigne and Cervantes
Marcos Antônio Lopes
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Does jesus have metal-free teeth in a country of the toothless?: dentistry of vanities and desires
Adauto Emmerich, Luis David Castiel
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Mediation practices in epidemiological research from an ethnographic perspective
Luís Augusto Vasconcelos da Silva
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Methodological proposal for a dual level analysis of qualitative data
Milena Pereira Pondé, Milena Siqueira Santos Mendonça, Carlos Caroso
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Friar José Mariano da Conceição Veloso and the promotion of industrial techniques in colonial Brazil: discussion of some concepts from the chemical sciences
Fernando J. Luna
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Human action in a Genomic Era: debates on human nature
Tatiana Gomes Rotondaro
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Quantity, quality, harmony and adaption: the guiding principles of a society without hunger in Josué de Castro
Eronides da Silva Lima
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Tradition, memory and archives of ‘brazilianness’: the unconscious in Mário de Andrade
Joel Birman
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IMAGES
Comics for citizenship
Francisco Caruso, Cristina Silveira
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RESEARCH NOTES
Research in ethnobotany and the return of systematized knowledge to the community: a complex issue
Rubia Graciela Patzlaff e Ariane Luna Peixoto
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Medicine, science and power: relations between France, Germany and Brazil in the period 1919-1942*
Magali Romero Sá, Jaime Benchimol, Simone Kropf. Larissa Viana, André Felipe Cândido da Silva
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BOOKS AND NETWORKS
In the street, the people give voice to the republic
• review by Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges on A república consentida: cultura democrática e científica do final do Império, by Maria Tereza Chaves de Mello
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From a faucet to a history and sociology of the city
• review by Jussara Freire on Cidade das águas: usos de rios, córregos, bicas e chafarizes em São Paulo, by Denise Bernuzzi de Sant’Anna
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