ANALYSIS
Circulation and production of knowledge and scientific practices in southern America in the eighteenth century: an analysis of Materia medica misionera, a manuscript by Pedro Montenegro (1710)
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck, Roberto Poletto
text in english
The white epidemic and the asepsis of refined earthenware in Belle Époque São Paulo
Rafael de Abreu e Souza
text in english
Petrifying the nation: paleontology collections in Brazil, 1836-1844
Paulo Henrique Martinez
text in english
Teaching, research, and extension service: botanist Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho
Massimo G. Bovini, Ariane Luna Peixoto
abstract
Alcohol consumption as portrayed in William Hogarth’s prints Beer Street and Gin Lane and in the works of John Wesley: similarities and differences
Helmut Renders
abstract
A history of public health concepts: integrity, coordination, decentralization, regionalization, and universality
Guilherme Arantes Mello, Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana
abstract
Reproduction, sexuality and power: the struggles and disputes over abortion and contraception in Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1930
Marinete dos Santos Silva
abstract
The sugar cane blight of the 1860s: science applied to agriculture
Begonha Bediaga
abstract
Bacteria or parasite? The controversy over the etiology of sleeping sickness and the Portuguese participation, 1898-1904
Isabel Amaral
text in english
IMAGES
Intersecting images: The Army and the hinterlands in the First Republic
Rogério Rosa Rodrigues
abstract
INTERVIEW
A life among insects and books: an interview with Nelson Papavero
Interview given Bruna Klassa and Charles Morphy D. Santos
abstract
RESEARCH NOTE
Between the modern and the rustic: the territorialization of preventive medicine in the middle Doce River
Patrícia Falco Genovez, Maria Terezinha Bretas Vilarino, José Luiz Cazarotto
abstract
BOOKS & NETWORKS
Epidemics as a sociopolitical challenge: the Spanish flu in Bahia
review by Mary Ann Mahony on A gripe espanhola na Bahia: saúde, política e medicina em tempos de epidemia, by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
text in portuguese
Biopower and eugenics: rethinking the intrusion of power into sexuality in the twentieth century
review by Mariana Dovio on Controlar lo incontrolable: una historia de la sexualidad en la Argentina, by Marisa Miranda
text in spanish
Memory’s manifold voices: from the Paulista School of Medicine to the Federal University of São Paulo, 75 years in 75 interviews
review by André Mota, Maria Gabriela S.M.C. Marinho on 75×75: EPM/Unifesp, uma história, 75 vidas, by Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian
text in portuguese
The price of altruism
review by Felipe A. P. L. Costa on The price of altruism: George Price and the search for the origins of kindness,
by Oren Harman
text in portuguese
Black Rome conquers Athens, but not the Brazilian enigma
review by Antonio Luigi Negro, Ana Cristina Rocha on Brazil’s living museum: race, reform and tradition in Bahia,
by Anadelia Romo
text in portuguese
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
And if obesity is not a disease? The side effects of a critique
Murilo Mariano Vilaça, Alexandre Palma
text in portuguese
