Paul Gootenberg, author of ‘Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug’: “Repressive criminalizing have largely failed”

Amazement. That’s the first word that comes to mind as I write this letter introducing the third issue of the journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos for 2013…

Thirteen original articles published in the supplement “Health and Slavery” of the journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos

Two of the topics featured in this issue are the appropriation of supernatural phenomena by science and scientific approaches to the mestizo in Mexico

From human sciences to advanced genomics, researchers discuss the mapping of Mexican mestizaje

EDITOR’S NOTE ANALYSIS A nosology for supernatural phenomena and the construction of the ‘possessed’ brain in the nineteenth century Valéria Portugal Gonçalves, Francisco Ortega text in english Scientific approaches to the Mexican mestizo Carlos López-Beltrán, Vivette García Deister text in english Power and health in South America: international...

EDITOR’S NOTE ANALYSIS The inventory of botanical curiosities in Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s Nouvelle France (1744) Michel Kobelinski text in english A trajectory of British health professionals, 1815-1858 Paula Yuri Sugishita Kanikadan, Maria Cristina da Costa Marques abstract Historical aspects of the institutionalization of adolescent...

INVITED EDITORS’ NOTE ANALYSIS Body, health and nutrition in the Brazilian Navy in the post-abolition period, 1890-1910 Sílvia Capanema P. de Almeida text in english Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin Elisée Soumonni text in english Dirt, disease and death: control, resistance and change in the post-emancipation...

EDITOR`S NOTE 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...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Culture and intelligence: anthropological reflections on non-physical aspects of evolution in chimpanzees and humans Eliane Sebeika Rapchan text in english Hansen versus Neisser: scientific controversies over the ‘discovery’ of the bacillus of leprosy Reinaldo Guilherme Bechler abstract Physical activities, health and youth movements...