ANALYSIS
The roots of French vitalism: Bordeu and Barthez, between Paris and Montpellier
Silvia Waisse, Maria Thereza Cera Galvão do Amaral, Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb
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The digital anatomical theater: scientific practices for representing the body
Marko Monteiro
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Disease and diet in the construction of otherness between the soldiers of the Brazilian Imperial Army during the War of the Farrapos
José Iran Ribeiro
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Oswaldo Cruz and the serology controversy
Jorge Augusto Carreta
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Epidemics and medical conundrums: Uruguay, 1918-1919
Víctor Serrón
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The Sateré-Mawé community of y’apyrehyt: ritual and health on the urban outskirts of Manaus
João Bosco Botelho, Valéria Augusta C.M. Weigel
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The healing arts and ways of life in the geographical realm of the cangaço
Iranilson Buriti de Oliveira
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The scientism of racial theories in O cortiço and Canaã
Luana Tieko Omena Tamano, Poliana dos Santos, Gildo Magalhães, Ana Claudia Aymoré Martins
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Nature and culture in the eyes of a nineteenth-century naturalist: Wallace and the Amazon
José Jerônimo de Alencar Alves
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‘Fueguinos’, Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, and the study of the Ona at the Buenos Aires National Exhibit (1898)
Diego A. Ballestero
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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: history and critique of a concept
Daniela Kurcgant, José Ricardo de Carvalho Mesquita Ayres
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The mathematic representation of a treatment: the circulation of technoscientific inscriptions in extracorporeal lithotripsy
Antonio Arellano
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From human to number in the construction of toxoplasmosis from the logic of the human sciences
Vera Lucia Marques da Silva, Kenneth Rochel Camargo Júnior
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Drawer of boundaries: Franz Boas and the (im)possibility of the concept of culture in anthropology
Angel Martínez-Hernáez
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease
Márcia Grisotti, Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires
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IMAGES
War is hazardous for your health: photographs and testimonies about death, wounds, disease and medical care during the Mexican Revolution
John Mraz
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SOURCES
Purveyors of technology: provincial engineers and the construction of road infrastructure in Minas Gerais
Lidiany Silva Barbosa
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Buddhism and science: an asymmetrical description
review by Diana Obregón Torres on Buddhism and science: a guide for the perplexed,
by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
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Animales de papel
review by Irina Podgorny on El rinoceronte y el megaterio: un ensayo de morfología histórica,
by Juan Pimentel
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The body as object and source in the production of the senses
review by Nádia Maria Weber Santos on Corpo: identidades, memórias e subjetividades,
by Monica Pimenta Velloso, Joëlle Rouchou and Cláudia Oliveira
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The institutionalization of SUS and the professional training of health workers
review by Luiza Helena Dalpiaz on Estado, sociedade e formação profissional em saúde: contradições e desafios em 20 anos de SUS, by Gustavo Corrêa Matta and Júlio César França Lima
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Constituting human and non-human collectivities: ordering the world
review by Rafael Bennertz on Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory,
by Bruno Latour
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Reflecting on pharmaceutical innovations and their impact on access to medications
review by José Augusto Cabral de Barros on Medicamentos no Brasil: inovação e acesso,
by Paulo Marchiori Buss, José da Rocha Carvalheiro and Carmem Phang Romero Casas
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The production of care within family healthcare teams: new lenses through which to view the micro-politics of health work
review by Adriano Maia dos Santos on A produção subjetiva do cuidado: cartografias da estratégia saúde da família, by Túlio Batista Franco, Cristina Setenta Andrade and Vitória Solange Coelho Ferreira
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