ANALYSIS
Child health in Latin America: historiographic perspectives and challenges
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
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Art, medical treatment and insanity: a territory in flux
Elizabeth Maria Freire de Araújo Lima and Peter Pál Pelbart
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Dr. Voronoff’s curious glandular xeno-implants
Ethel Mizrahy Cuperschmid and Tarcisio Passos Ribeiro de Campos
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The ailing colony and the health of the people: the medicine of the Enlightenment and information about the infirmities in Portugal’s American colonies
Jean Luiz Neves Abreu
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Life in their eyes, heart in their hands: conceptions and representations of women in the process of health and disease
Glauce Dias, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini, José Roberto Reis, Roberta Sena Reis, Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista and Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta
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Fragments of the history of healthcare for users of alcohol and other drugs in Brazil: from Justice to Public Health
Ana Regina Machado and Paulo Sérgio Carneiro Miranda
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The worker and the hysteric: two modern subjects
Luciano da Fonseca Elia
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The orientalization of the West as a surface of emergence for new paradigms in health
Maria Inês Nogueira and Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr.
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Shen: structuring category in the rationale of Chinese medical
Claudia dos Santos Ferreira and Madel Therezinha Luz
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The origins of the basic healthcare system in Brazil: the District System of Sanitation Administration
Carlos Eduardo Aguilera Campos
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Rites of sacrifice: the survival of an ancient dimension of the human body
Andrea Lessa
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Social and scientific utopias in late 19th century Brazil
Adalmir Leonídio
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The scientific exploits of the naturalist Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada in São Paulo capitania (1800-1805)
Alex Gonçalves Varela and Maria Margaret Lopes
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SOURCES
An unpublished manuscript by naturalist and politician Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada
Alex Gonçalves Varela
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IMAGES
Photography as analysis document, body and medicine: theory, method and criticism – the experience of Museo Nacional de Medicina Enrique Laval
César Leyton Robinson and Andrés Díaz Caballero
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Narratives created by images: photography, collective health and the construction of memory in the writing of local history
Luís Reznik and Marcelo da Silva Araújo
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RESEARCH NOTE
Physicians and pharmacists in Uberabinha (1890-1920): conflicts and disputes
Antônio de Pádua Bosi
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
The dialectics of power in colonies
• review by Paulo Cavalcante on O sol e a sombra: política e administração na América portuguesa do século XVIII, by Laura de Mello e Souza
text in portuguese
On the pace of invention in modern Brazil
• review by Ana Maria Mauad¨ on Hello, hello Brazil: popular music in the making of modern Brazil,
by Bryan McCan
text in portuguese
The old-fashioned modernism of Ronald de Carvalho
• review by Dominichi Miranda de Sá on O Brasil e os dias: Estado-nação, modernismo e rotina intelectual, by André Botelho
text in portuguese
The inexact routes of science
• review by Letícia Borges Nedel on A ciência como profissão: médicos, bacharéis e cientistas no Brasil (1895-1935), by Dominichi Miranda de Sá
text in portuguese
The subjects of Momo in the white Republic: chronicles and carnival in the press
in Rio de Janeiro
• review by Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges on Os cronistas de Momo: imprensa e Carnaval na Primeira República, by Eduardo Granja Coutinho
text in portuguese
Paroxysms and ambivalences, sociotechnics
• review by Caco Xavier on Precariedades do excesso: informação e comunicação em saúde coletiva,by Luis David Castiel and Paulo Roberto Vasconcellos-Silva
text in portuguese
THESES
Spanish flu in Bahia: health, politics and medicine in times of epidemics
Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza
text in portuguese
Anatomy of difference: a theoretical and descriptive investigation into handicaps from an everyday perspective
Ray Pereira
text in portuguese
