Motoyama was a forceful defender of the history of science in Brazil. Read the full guest editor’s note by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva, Professor of History at FFLCH-USP.
Geology and medicine in Brazil
Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa was a scientist and teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose work spanned engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and law. This paper discusses a manuscript entitled “Table of mineral classification,” which he appended to his dissertation presented to the Faculty of Medicine in 1889.
La histeria y la santidad
El artículo de Andrea Graus, investigadora en el Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, en Paris, explora la apropiación de la terminología psiquiátrica por parte de teólogos y párrocos franceses en el siglo XIX. Esta apropiación le sirvió al clero para demarcar la experiencia mística “auténtica” de la simulada o “desviada”.



