ANALYSIS
On acclimatization: Boudin and medical geography
Sandra Caponi
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Medical geography and the French expeditions to Brazil: a description of the naval station in Brazil and the Prata (1868-1870)
Rosa Helena de Santana Girão de Morais
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‘Magdalena fevers‘: medicine and society in the construction of a Colombian medical notion, 1859-1886
Claudia Mónica García
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Parasite ethiology and epistemological obstacles: the case of malaria in Colombia
Victoria Estrada Orrego and Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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Human handicap and self-determination: compassion and insensibility in the Vincent Humbert case
Ray Pereira
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Street social education: historical, political and pedagogical bases
Walter Ferreira de Oliveira
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Merton and medical sociology
Everardo Duarte Nunes
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School museums, collections, and elementary teaching of the natural sciences in late XIX century Argentina
Susana V. García
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Historical tendencies of diet studies in Brazil
Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos
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História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos: examining 12 years of regular circulation
Jaime L. Benchimol, Roberta Cardoso Cerqueira, Ruth B. Martins and Amanda Mendonça
text in english
Dialogues between Clio and Asclepius: Ivolino de Vasconcellos and the Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina
Mauro Amoroso
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SOURCES
Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina, a pioneer in medical historiography
Amanda Mendonça and Gabriel Baptista Nicolini
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The 1755 Lisbon earthquake: collections of eighteenth-century texts
Filomena Amador
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IMAGES
From the old headquarters of the Diretoria Geral de Saúde Pública (DGSP) to the Instituto Nacional do Câncer (Inca)
Benedito Tadeu de Oliveira
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TESTIMONIES
The modern chemistry of natural products in Brazil: the origins of the Núcleo de Pesquisas de Produtos Naturais da UFRJ
Affonso Prado Seabra and Walter Baptist Mors, with introduction by Lina Faria
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Limits and frontiers of eugenics in the West of the United States
• review by Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza on Eugenic nation: faults and frontier of better breeding in modern America, by Alexandra Minna Stern
text in portuguese
Studies on the Brazilian Indian Peoples: a demography with a human face
• review by María Mercedes Arias Valencia on Demografia dos povos indígenas no Brasil, by Heloisa Pagliaro, Marta Maria Azevedo e Ricardo Ventura Santos (org.)
text in spanish
On the culture of science history
• review by Mauro Lúcio Leitão Condé e Regina Horta Duarte on Jahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur (Yearbook for European Culture of Science), by Mauro Lúcio Leitão Condé e Regina Horta Duarte
text in portuguese
THESES
text in portuguese
