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Luso-Brazilian enlightenment and the circulation of Caribbean slavery-related knowledge: the establishment of the Brazilian coffee culture from a comparative perspective
Rafael de Bivar Marquese
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A Portuguese manor in rural Brazil or The saga of the enlightened Dom Frei Cipriano and the garden of the former episcopal palace in the late eighteenth century
Moacir Rodrigo de Castro Maia
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The sociology of statistics: the possibilities of a new field of investigation
Alexandre de Paiva Rio Camargo
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History and biology: possible dialogues, necessary distances
Regina Horta Duarte
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Eliot Freidson: progression and constraints in the biography of an intellectual
André Pereira Neto
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Climate, brain, and degeneration in Cabanis
Sandra Caponi
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Folklore and popular medicine in the Amazon
Márcio Couto Henrique
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Dental education in Brazil: the production of knowledge during 1995-2006
Elisete Casotti, Victoria Maria Brant Ribeiro, Mônica Villela Gouvêa
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Dental teaching in Brazil: an interpretation based on recommendations and international meetings from the 1960s
Maria Goretti Queiroz, Luiz Fernandes Dourado
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Teaching, research, and health care: a case study
Francisco Strauss, Jacqueline Leta
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INTERVIEW
A view of the Núcleo de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva
Themis Xavier de Albuquerque Pinheiro
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Scientists in action: more time and research essential for uncovering the A (H1N1) virus
Interview with Marilda Mendonça Siqueira
given to Roberta Cardoso Cerqueira and Ruth B. Martins
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DEBATE
The flu far and near: comparing the 1918 and 2009 pandemics
Adriana Alvarez, Adrián Carbonetti, Ana María Carrillo, Claudio Bertolli Filho, Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza, Liane Maria Bertucci, Nara Azevedo
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
The gender of transvestites: the body and sexuality in Brazilian culture
• review by Mirian Goldenberg, on Travesti:prostituição, sexo, gênero e cultura no Brasil,
by Dom Kulick
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Ways of suffering, feeling pleasure, and constructing (oneself): on the
psychodynamics of work and its subject
• review by Cristiana Facchinetti, on Christophe Dejours: da psicopatologia à psicodinâmica do trabalho,by Selma Lancman and Laerte Idal Sznelwar
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Health from a State perspective under Vargas
• review by Karina Inés Ramacciotti, on Saúde no governo Vargas (1930-1945): dualidade institucional de um bem público, by Cristina M. Oliveira Fonseca
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The sociology of health and of disease: new challenges
• review by Everardo Duarte Nunes on “Towards a sociology of disease”,by Stefan Timmermans and Steven Haas, and “Mapping the field of medical sociology: a comparative analysis of journals”,
by Clive Seale
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Educating the general public about biological evolution
• review by Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto on Evolução: o sentido da biologia,
by Diogo Meyer and Charbel Niño El-Hani
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Protagonists, knowledge, and practices in the history of birth and maternity in Chile
• review by Ana Paula Vosne Martins on Dar a luz en Chile, siglo XIX: de la ‘ciencia de la hembra’ a la ciencia obstétrica, by María Soledad Zárate
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