EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS The discourse of sexual excess as a hallmark of Brazilianness: revisiting Brazilian social thinking in the 1920s and 1930s Oliveira, Cristiane · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese On slaves and genes: “origins” and “processes” in genetic studies...

GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS Between seas and continents: aspects of the scientific career of Hermann von Ihering, 1850-1930 Lopes, Maria Margaret; Podgorny, Irina · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Commercial fishing and the study of marine fauna in Argentina,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...