ANALYSIS
‘Mercenary wet-nurses’: the discourse of medical doctors and portraits of the wet-nurses – Brazil in the second half of the 19th century
Sandra Sofia Machado Koutsoukos
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The magic universe of cures: the role of magic practices and witchcraft in the universe of 17th century Mato Grosso
Mario Sá
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Corporate and technological changes in São Paulo medicine in 1930
André Mota, Lilia Blima Schraiber
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Revisiting establishment of the etiology of Turner syndrome
Monica de Paula Jung, Maria Helena Cabral de Almeida Cardoso, Maria Auxiliadora Monteiro Villar, Juan Clinton Llerena Jr.
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The design and promotion of health in the Fiocruz research laboratories
Elio Grossman, Inesita S. Araújo, Tania C. Araújo-Jorge
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The socio-cultural bases of alternative therapeutic practices
Eduardo F. Alexander Amaral de Souza, Madel Therezinha Luz
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The Hospital-Colónia Rovisco Pais: the last Portuguese leprosarium and the contingent universes of experience and memory
Alice Cruz
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Hansen’s disease in Maranhão in the 1930s: on the way to Colônia do Bonfim
José Augusto Leandro
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The compulsory isolation of Hansen’s disease patients: memories of the elderly
Selma Munhoz Sanches de Castro, Helena Akemi Wada Watanabe
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The religious imaginary of Hansen’s disease patients: a comparative study of former inmates of the asylums of São Paulo and current Hansen’s disease patients
André Gonçalves Mellagi, Yara Nogueira Monteiro
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Sociology of science: are knowledge production and the quest for scientific status two divergent courses?
Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida, Tassos Lycurgo
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SOURCES
Antislavery and epidemic Mathieu François Maxime Audouard’s
“O tráfico dos negros considerado como a causa da febre amarela” and the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1850*
Kaori Kodama
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O tráfico dos negros considerado como a causa da febre amarela, O Philantropo, 27.9.1850
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The trajectory of scientific periodicals at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz: perspectives of the Biomedical Sciences Library
Jeorgina Gentil Rodrigues, Sandra Maria Osório Xavier Marinho
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Hortênsia de Hollanda: the art of health education to prevent and control epidemics in Brazil
Maria Cecília P. Diniz, Betânia Gonçalves Figueiredo, Virgínia Torres Schall
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Educação sanitária na profilaxia das endemias rurais
por Hortênsia Hurpia de Hollanda, 1956
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Scientific theories and political-cultural hegemony meet
• review by Alejandra M. Otamendi on Darwinismo social y eugenesia en el mundo latino,
by Marisa Miranda, Vallejo, Gustavo (Org.).
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História da medicina em São Paulo: como o conhecimento dá voltas
• review by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva, on Na arena de Esculápio: a Sociedade de Medicina e Cirurgia de São Paulo (1895-1913), by Luiz Antonio Teixeira.
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O embate de diferentes campos discursivos
• review by Renato Sérgio de Lima, on O saber e o poder das estatísticas, by Nelson Senra
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Un fisiólogo entre bambalinas: Claude Bernard y la función del páncreas
• review by Gustavo Caponi on Claude Bernard: el sebo de la vela y la originalidad científica, by Ana Cecilia Rodríguez de Romo
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Escapando das armadilhas dos métodos
• review by Ana Paula Alves Ribeiro, on Segredos e truques da pesquisa, by Howard S. Becker
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THESES
A subjetividade como anomalia: estratégias médicas para lidar com os sintomas vagos e difusos em biomedicina
Carla Ribeiro Guedes
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Da enxada à colher de pedreiro: trajetórias de vulnerabilidade social na construção civil
Fernanda Flávia Cockell
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A legitimação de trabalhos plásticos de pacientes psiquiátricos: eixo Rio-São Paulo
Tatiana Fecchio da Cunha Gonçalves
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LETTER TO EDITOR
Carta 1
Fernando J. Luna
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Carta 2
Marcia H. M. Ferraz
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