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...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS ‘Hot’ Earth in the mass media: the reliability of news reports on global warming Celso Dal Ré Carneiro, João Cláudio Toniolo text in english Scientific research and Portuguese colonial policy: developments and articulations, 1936-1974 Cláudia Castelo text in english Between parasitic theory and experimental oncology: a proposal...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS The weight of pathological: bio-politics and bare life Cristiane Marques Seixas, Joel Birman text in english The objectives of the U.S. Exploring Expedition’s circumnavigation (1838-1842): longitude, nautical charting and the establishment of modern geographic coordinates* Mary Anne Junqueira text in english Stem cell research: a case...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS ‘Formidable contagion’: epidemics, work and recruitment in Colonial Amazonia, 1660-1750 Rafael Chambouleyron, Benedito Costa Barbosa, Fernanda Aires Bombardi, Claudia Rocha de Sousa text in english Lazzaro Spallanzani and fossils: from a naturalist’s travel observations to the teaching of natural history Maria Elice Brzezinski...

GUEST EDITORS’ NOTE ANALYSIS Gender and assistance: historical and conceptual considerations regarding assistance practices and policies Ana Paula Vosne Martins text in english From the agricultural colony to the hospital-colony: configurations for psychiatric care in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century Ana Teresa A. Venancio text in...

EDITOR`S NOTE 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 text in english The digital anatomical theater: scientific practices for representing the body Marko Monteiro text in english Disease and diet in the construction of otherness between...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Homeopathic strategies: the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1940s and 1950s Beatriz Teixeira Weber abstract Disfiguring disease, degeneration and climate in Colombia, 1880-1920 Hilderman Cardona Rodas, María Fernanda Vásquez Valencia  text in english Medical supervision of sports by the São Paulo State Department of...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Taxa as types: Buffon, Cuvier and Lamarck Gustavo Caponi text in english The tropics and the rise of the British Empire: Mungo Park’s perspective on Africa in the late eighteenth century Larissa Viana  text in english John Banister: an Elizabethan surgeon in Brazi Amílcar D’Avila de Mello  text in english Fernand Braudel and the...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Girolamo Fracastoro and the invention of syphilis Virginia Iommi Echeverría text in english Reading the ‘natural book’: notes towards a history of anatomical and surgical studies in Buenos Aires (1870-1895) Pablo Souza, Diego Hurtado text in english Biomedical colonialism or local autonomy?: local healers in the fight against...

GUEST EDITOR ’S NOTE ANALYSIS Grand mal seizures in the Cemetery of the Living: the diagnosis of epilepsy at Brazil’s National Hospital for the Insane Margarida de Souza Neves text in english Nervousness as a nosographic category in the early twentieth century Luiz Fernando Duarte text in english Classifying differences: the dementia praecox and...