ANALYSIS
From psychiatric reform to the struggle for a ‘non-fascist life’
Sergio Alarcon
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Graduate studies and work: a study on the plans and expectations of Brazilian doctoral candidates
Rita de Cássia Ramos Louzada and João Ferreira da Silva Filho
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The concept of student health as viewed by early elementary school teachers (1st- 4th grades)
Marcos Henrique Fernandes, Vera Maria Rocha and Djanira Brasilino de Souza
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Notes on an approximation between neo-Darwinism and the social sciences
Ricardo Waizbort
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DOSSIER: RACE, GENETICS, IDENTITIES, AND HEALTH
Reasons for banishing the concept of race from Brazilian medicine
Sérgio D. J. Pena
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The significance of sickle cell anemia within the context of the Brazilian government’s ‘racial policies’ (1995-2004)
Peter H. Fry
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Race, genetics, and hypertension: new genetics or old eugenics?
Josué Laguardia
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Human nature created in the laboratory: the biologization and genetization of kinship in new reproductive technologies
Naara Luna
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In times of racialization: the case of the ‘health of the black population’ in Brazil
Marcos Chor Maio and Simone Monteiro
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Anthropology, race, and the dilemmas of identity in the age of genomics
Ricardo Ventura Santos and Marcos Chor Maio
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DEBATE
Science, technology, parliament, and dialoguing with citizen
Luisa Massarani
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Public participation in Science and Technology: influencing decisions and, primarily, keeping society informed and involved
Interview with Lars Klüver and Edna F. Einsiedel, by Luisa Massarani e Carla Almeida
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Democratizing science? Citizen juries and other deliberative methods
Tom Shakespeare
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Consensus conferences: the Chilean experience
Alberto Pellegrini Filho
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The human genome on the streets of Avellaneda
Ricardo Ferraro, Adriano J. Bacciadonne, Alberto Díaz
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SOURCES
Chernoviz and popular medical manuals in the days of the Empire
Maria Regina Cotrim Guimarães
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IMAGES
Theodoro Peckolt: the scientific work of a pioneer in phytochemistry in Brazil
Nadja Paraense dos Santos
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RESEARCH NOTES
Giovanni Battista Marini Bettolo: his role in the development of chemistry in Uruguay
Bernardo Borkenztain, Amílcar Davyt, Fernando Ferreira and Patrick Moyna
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Body image: discovering one’s self
Daniela dias Barros
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
A multi-faceted look across time: hygienism and eugenics in Brazil
• reviewed by Bernardo Andrade Marçolla on Higiene e raça como projetos: higienismo e eugenismo no Brasil, de Maria Lúcia Boarini (org.)
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Chapters in the social history of medicine in Brazil
• reviewed by Carlos Eduardo Calaça on Artes e ofícios de curar no Brasil: capítulos de história social, de Sidney Chalhoub et al. (org.)
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The sociopolitical dimensions of an epidemic: São Paulo in the mad grip of the Spanish flu
• reviewed by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza on A gripe espanhola em São Paulo, 1918: epidemia e sociedade, by Cláudio Bertolli Filho
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Contradictions and asymmetries in the construction of knowledge about Aids/HIV
• reviewed by Maria Cristina da Costa Marques on Ciência, poder, acção: as respostas à Sida,
by Cristiana Bastos
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Abysm or continuities? Polemics surrounding pre-colonial Tupi and the ‘general language’ disseminated by the Jesuits
• reviewed by Jânia Martins Ramos e Renato Pinto Venâncio on Línguas gerais: política lingüística na América do Sul no período colonial, by José Ribamar Bessa Freire e Maria Carlota Rosa (org.)
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New reflections on Aids
• reviewed by João Bôsco Hora Góis on A história de uma epidemia moderna: a emergência política da Aids/HIV no Brasil, by Maria Cristina da Costa Marques
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The Complete Works of Adolpho Lutz: an unprecedented work in review
• reviewed by Sandra Caponi sobre Adolpho Lutz: obra completa (1ª caixa, com quatro livros),
by Jaime L. Benchimol e Magali Romero Sá (org.)
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