The new edition of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos adopts the continuous publication system (also known as continuous stream of publication). This system consists on the electronic publication of the journal’s articles, isolated or in small groups, as soon as they are approved and internally processed (linguistic revision, normalization, layout), instead of publishing all articles of an issue at once. The first batch of texts is already available on the SciELO portal.
The journal no longer has four annual editions and now has a single yearly edition, constantly updated with new content. According to the scientific editor of HCS-Manguinhos, the continuous publication system enables greater agility in the dissemination of our authors’ research, and it will increase the journal’s visibility.
“Hopefully, this editorial modernization and the good news about Nísia Trindade Lima’s taking office as Minister of Health represents the beginning of a promising year for the scientific community and for public health in Brazil,” says HCS-Manguinhos Science editor Marcos Cueto in the Editor’s Note.
Six articles are part of the first update of volume 30 of HCS-Manguinhos. A doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in History of Science and Health (PPGHCS) at COC, Bruno Corrêa de Sá e Benevides signs “Social malaise… demonic agitation:” anarchism according to the criminology of the French physician Alexandre Lacassagne. Claudia Agostoni, a researcher at Universidad Autónoma de México, analyzes social cooperation and therapeutic offers in the fight against tuberculosis in Mexico City in the 1940s.
Classifying the women: psychiatric diagnoses and female subjectivity in the Manicomio Provincial de Málaga, Spain, 1909-1950 is the title of an article written by University of Malaga professor Celia García-Díaz. The Colombian Healthy Child Contest and the search for Latin America’s “ideal child” in Latin America in the 1930s are the themes of the text by Iván Darío Olaya Peláez, a researcher at the University of Le Havre. Professor at the Catholic University of Peru, José Ignacio Mogrovejo Palomo, analyzes the trajectory of physician and politician Luis Carranza Ayarza and the development of environmental imaginaries in Peru at the end of the 19th century.
The medicinal recipes of Hannah Woolley: everyday practice and female authority in seventeenth-century England is the article title by the professor at Faculdade Sesi-São Paulo Marina Juliana de Oliveira Soares. This article describes a seventeenth-century English woman writer’s interest in medical care and the reasons that led her to publish texts on this topic.
Tropics and frontier in the writing of Brazilian historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda is the title of the historiographic review produced by the diplomat of the Embassy of Brazil in Mexico, Luiz Feldman. In his analysis, Feldman discusses the changes in the understanding of the Brazilian space, operated by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda between the publication of Raízes do Brasil in the mid-1930s, and O Extremo Oeste, in the 1960s. According to Feldman, after conceiving the country from the idea of tropics, the historian develops a deliberately opposed vision, conceiving the country from the idea of a frontier. In this rough space, a foreigner’s adaptability reaches its limit.
In the section Testimonies COVID-19, Jianan Huang researcher at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), analyzes the discovery of drugs to fight Covid-19 influenced by traditional Chinese medicine. According to the author, despite its resistance, for various reasons, Chinese medicine served as a source of inspiration for developing new treatments at three different levels: traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, traditional Chinese medical formulas, and traditional Chinese medical texts.
See all articles and book reviews recently published in HCS-Manguinhos.
