ANALYSIS
“Gold earrings, calico skirts”: images of women and their role in the project to civilize the Amazon, as observed by Elizabeth Agassiz in Viagem ao Brasil: 1865-1866
Fabiane Vinente dos Santos
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The modern psychiatric institution from an organizational perspective
Fábio Vizeu
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Scientific research in the biosciences in São Paulo: beyond institutions
Gildo Magalhães dos Santos
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THE SPANISH FLU IN BRAZIL DOSSIER
The Spanish flu in Salvador, 1918: city of alleys and tenements
Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
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Revisiting the Spanish flu: the 1918 influenza pandemic in Rio de Janeiro
Adriana da Costa Goulart
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Among doctors and for the lay: fragments of the medical discourse during the 1918 flu epidemic
Liane Maria Bertucci-Martins
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Danger is in the air: is the Spanish Flu back?
Interview with Marilda Mendonça Siqueira
by Jaime Larry Benchimol, Roberta Cardoso Cerqueira and Ruth B. Martins
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IMAGES
Social assistance institutions and Jewish immigration
Roney Cytrynowicz
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SOURCES
Science, politics, and passion: the Carlos Chagas Filho archive
Ana Luce Girão Soares de Lima, Cecília Chagas de Mesquita, Francisco dos Santos Lourenço, Leonardo Arruda Gonçalves and Ricardo Augusto dos Santos
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Brazil as glimpsed in Gilberto Freyre
• reviewed by André Botelho sobre Gilberto Freyre em quatro tempos,
de Ethel Volfzon Kosminsky, Claude Lépine and Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (orgs.)
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Imperialism and philanthropy: the experience of the Rockefeller Foundation and hygienism under Brazil’s First Republic
• reviewed by Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva sobre A Reforma Sanitária no Brasil: ecos
da Primeira República, by Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos and Lina Rodrigues de Faria
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The multiple faces of science in Brazil in the 100 years following Origin of Species
• reviewed by Renan Springer de Freitas sobre A recepção do darwinismo no Brasil,
by Heloisa Maria B. Domingues, Magali R omero S á and Thomas Glick (orgs.)
text in portuguese
Exploring the interface between Anthropology and Genetics
• reviewed bySérgio D. J. Pena sobre Genetic nature/culture: Anthropology and science
beyond the two-culture divide, byAlan H. Goodman, Debora Heath and M. Susan Lindee (eds.)
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THESES
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