ANALYSIS
Carlos Chagas Filho’s choice of biological physics: reasons and motivations
Almeida, Darcy Fontoura de
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The public perception of information about the potential risks of genetically modified crops in the food chain
Furnival, Ariadne Chloë; Pinheiro, Sônia Maria
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The role of the media in the social construction of risk: the Adrianópolis case in Ribeira valley
Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques; Pereira, Newton Müller; Figueiredo, Bernardino Ribeiro de
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Morphosemantic indexing of health-related images to improve information retrieval
Pinto, Virginia Bentes
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Government tutelage of mothers and children in Argentina: administrative structures, law, and technical staff (1936-1955)
Biernat, Carolina; Ramacciotti, Karina
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Torrent of madmen: the language of degeneration in Portuguese psychiatry at the close of the 19th century
Quintais, Luís
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The suicide of slaves in São Paulo during the last two decades of slavery
Oliveira, Saulo Veiga; Oda, Ana Maria Galdini Raimundo
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Norbert Elias and a narrative about ageing and death
Agra do Ó, Alarcon
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RESEARCH NOTES
The entomology collection at Instituto Oswaldo Cruz: restoring a historical scientific collection scattered by the Manguinhos Massacre
Costa, Jane; Cerri, Danielle; Romero de Sá, Magali; Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
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Historical study of statistics: topics and sources
Senra, Nelson
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
New approaches to the history of slavery
Soares, Mariza de Carvalho
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DOSSIER – TRANSMISSION OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC LEGACY: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
Seven studies into the transmission of science and scientific legacy between Europe and Latin America (1850-1940)
Lozano, Sonia
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Medical practice and biology as a science: introduction of paradigms, assimilation and social domestication in Mexico
Ledesma-Mateos, Ismael
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Importation and destination of the first germ theory in Mexico: development of the first researches into yellow fever in the 1880s
Lozano, Sonia
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Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in porfirian Mexico
Priego, Natalia
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Spain’s contribution to pharmacy in 19th century Cuba
de la Peña Puerta, José Manuel González; Ramos Carrillo, Antonio; Moreno Toral, Esteban
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Scientific links between Venezuela’s veterinary medicine and its Latin American counterparts: Mexico and the Southern Cone (1933-1955)
Freites, Yajaira
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The Venezuelan sanitation authority and the incorporation of physicians exiled from the Spanish Civil War
Martin-Frechilla, Juan José
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The invisible college of Ángel Garma and the role of its collaborators in Argentine psychoanalysis
Quiñones Vidal, Elena; Peñaranda Ortega, María; García Quiñones, Elena
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