Kapil Raj, associated professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will lecture at Fiocruz next Thursday, August 14h.

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS From measuring the rural to the rural made to measure: social representations in perspective Anjos, Flávio Sacco dos; Caldas, Nádia Velleda · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese From application to implication in medical anthropology: political,...

Reflections and experiences

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS Health reform and the creation of the Sistema Único de Saúde: notes on contexts and authors Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assunção; Teixeira, Luiz Antonio · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Political challenges facing the consolidation of the Sistema...

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS Anomalies in the early stages of plant transgenesis: interests and interpretations surrounding the first transgenic plants Pellegrini, Pablo A. · abstract in English     · text in English | Spanish Life grammars: the 1907 census and population as a tool of government Banados, Yuri...

He (1867-1914) was a Swiss Botanist who worked at the Amazon from 1895 to 1914 and authored a major work on taxonomy, phytogeography, plant ecology and agronomy.

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS Body and society in the Libro de la anathomía del hombre by Bernardino Montaña de Monserrate: an anatomist’s political dream Pedraz, Miguel Vicente · abstract in Spanish · text in English | Spanish Reflections on human embryo research: the debate in Portuguese ethics organizations Alves,...

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Spanish ANALYSIS Malaria as a disease and as a cultural perspective in Carlos Chagas’ and Mário de Andrade’s travels to the Amazon Lima, Nisia Trindade; Botelho, Andre · abstract in English | Portuguese · text in English | Portuguese Between the Carlo R. and the Orleannais: public health and...

After lecturing on the therapeutic revolution at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz’s History seminar Encontro às Quintas, Jeremy Greene gave us an interview.

An author is considered to have committed self-plagiarism when he reuses his own previously published material, without making any reference to the earlier published work. By Ernesto Spinak.