ANALYSIS
Fatigue and its disturbances: conditions of possibility and the rise and fall of twentieth-century neurastheni
Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli
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Elements for a history of neuroascese
Francisco Ortega
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Machado de Assis and psychiatry: a chapter in the relations between art and clinical practice in Brazil
Elizabeth Maria Freire de Araújo Lima
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Physical therapy education in Brazil: reflections on the expansion of teaching and training models
José Patrício Bispo Júnior
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Transgenic products: a scientific-production evaluation of possible food (in)security
Maria Clara Coelho Camara, Carmem L.C. Marinho, Maria Cristina Rodrigues Guilam, Rubens Onofre Nodari
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The misery of degeneration: Buffon’s materialism and the ‘limitations’ of his transformism
Gustavo Caponi
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Women’s rights in Brazil: focus on maternal health
Ana Cristina da Nóbrega Marinho Torres Leite, Neir Antunes Paes
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Differently abled: difference and the historical model of the standard man
Ray Pereira
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Why do efforts toward theoretical synthesis prove so successful in biology but not in sociology?
Renan Springer de Freitas, Adriana Maria de Figueiredo
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Knowledge production and the quest for applicability: the experience of universities and the chemical industry
Georg M.L. Weinberg, Marcelino José Jorge, Marina Figueiras Jorge
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SOURCES
The National Museum’s physical anthropology archive: sources on the history of eugenics in Brazil
Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Mônica Costa S. Coelho, Ozana Hannesch, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho
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RESEARCH NOTES
Carlos Chagas Filho Virtual Library: a space for disseminating contemporary Brazilian science
Francisco dos Santos Lourenço, Daniela Passos, Marcus Teixeira Mendonça, Thiago Werneck Gonçalves, Darcy Fontoura de Almeida
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“The Pyrenees are not hollow”: the mountain as a boundary object
Jérôme Lamy
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Literature, sex, and diseases: new narratives on the British Empire
• review by Cláudio DeNipoti, on Torrid zones: maternity, sexuality, and empire in eighteenth century English narratives, by Felicity A. Nussbaum, and Romanticism and colonial disease, by Alan Bewell
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Between bones and scientists: an exploration of American pre-history
• review by Ricardo Ventura Santos and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, on O povo de Luzia: em busca dos primeiros americanos, by Waler Alves Neves e Luís Beethoven Piló
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Healthcare policy in Brazil on the path of history
• review by Ialê Falleiros, on Público e privado na política de assistência à saúde no Brasil: atores, processos e trajetória, by Telma Maria Gonçalves Menicucci
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Invention of hysteria
• review by Rafael Alves Pinto Junior, on La invención de la histeria: Charcot y la iconografia fotográfica de La Salpêtrière, by Georges Didi-Huberman
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Towards a theoretical and methodological renewal of history: old proposals for a new history
• review by Claudio Umpierre Carlan, on A história repensada, by Keith Jenkins
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Yes, we have Pasteur
• review by André Felipe Cândido da Silva, on Yes, nós temos Pasteur: Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz e a história da ciência no Brasil, by Henrique Cukierman
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