10 October 2017
In the present issue of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos (vol.24 no. 3 July-Sept. 2017), we begin a new section in the journal: historiographical reviews.
Our aim is to provide a panoramic perspective of what has been achieved on selected themes and what needs more investigation.
Nelson Sanjad, a historian from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, was commissioned to write on international exhibitions related to Latin America. We should mention that this article was possible thanks to the grant we received from the Wellcome Trust about a year ago.
Artwork by Fernando Vasconcelos based on the catalogue of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.
Topics include: The botanist George Gardner’s impressions of slave culture in Brazil, 1810- 1850; The evolutionist debate in Spain during the nineteenth century; the thalidomide tragedy in Brazil, in the late 1950s; the indicators of scientific productivity; and the relationship between encyclopedic knowledge and the construction of science.
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