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...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Pain beyond the confines of man: a preliminary introduction to the debate between Frances Power Cobbe and the darwinists with respect to vivisection in Victorian England (1863-1904) André Luis de Lima Carvalho, Ricardo Waizbort  text in english Considerations on the concepts of nature, space, and morphology in Alexander von Humboldt and...

GUEST EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Cancer control in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century Luiz Antonio Teixeira text in english Migrating techniques, multiplying diagnoses: the contribution of Argentina and Brazil to early ‘detection policy’ in cervical cancer Yolanda Eraso text in english Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS The cerebralization of fatigue: an analysis of the cerebral hypothesis in the case of chronic fatigue syndrome Francisco Ortega, Rafaela Zorzanelli text in english The Paduan School of Medicine: medicine and philosophy in the modern era Regina Andrés Rebollo text in english Health and dietetics in medieval preventive medicine: the health...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS The experience of a ‘weak and sick childhood’ far from home: the experience of the Maritime Asylum, Mar del Plata (1893-1920) Adriana Álvarez abstract Sport, medicine and art: the ‘enchanted science’ of the body in the works of Thomas Eakins Victor Andrade de Melo, Fabio de Faria Peres abstract A forgotten milestone of sanitation...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Luso-Brazilian enlightenment and the circulation of Caribbean slavery-related knowledge: the establishment of the Brazilian coffee culture from a comparative perspective Rafael de Bivar Marquese text in english A Portuguese manor in rural Brazil or The saga of the enlightened Dom Frei Cipriano and the garden of the former episcopal palace...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Fatigue and its disturbances: conditions of possibility and the rise and fall of twentieth-century neurastheni Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli text in english Elements for a history of neuroascese Francisco Ortega abstract Machado de Assis and psychiatry: a chapter in the relations between art and clinical practice in Brazil Elizabeth Maria...

GUEST EDITOR`S NOTE CHAGAS´ BRAZIL: SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND SOCIETY ANALYSIS The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease (1908-1909): tropical medicine in Brazil Simone Petraglia Kropf, Magali Romero Sá text in english The reception by French physicians of Chagas’ discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and American trypanosomiasis (1909-1925) Gabriel...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS ‘Mercenary wet-nurses’: the discourse of medical doctors and portraits of the wet-nurses – Brazil in the second half of the 19th century Sandra Sofia Machado Koutsoukos abstract The magic universe of cures: the role of magic practices and witchcraft in the universe of 17th century Mato Grosso Mario Sá abstract Corporate and...

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Machines and arguments: from life support technologies to the definition of brain death Luciana Kind abstract Like Moses’ staff: pathological inheritance as an argument for medical vigilance of consanguine marriage in Mexico, 1870-1900 Fabricio González Sorianos text in english Impact of the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 on the general...