ANALYSIS
Pain beyond the confines of man: a preliminary introduction to the debate between Frances Power Cobbe and the darwinists with respect to vivisection in Victorian England (1863-1904)
André Luis de Lima Carvalho, Ricardo Waizbort
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Considerations on the concepts of nature, space, and morphology in Alexander von Humboldt and on the genesis of modern physical geography
Antonio Carlos Vitte, Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da Silveira
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Postmodern antinomies on nature
José Marcos Froehlich, Celso Reni Braidades
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Discourses on the body, the ‘human motor’, energy and fatigue: cultural hybridations in fin-de-siècle Argentina
Diego P. Roldán
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The role of the Faculty of Medicine in the process of academic modernization and professionalization at the University of Buenos Aires, 1955-1958: issues in debate and points of convergence
Lucía Romero
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The Bureau of Longitudes and the founding of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina (1882-1890)
Marina Rieznik
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Euclides da Cunha in the Amazon: historical discontinuities in how the forest is seen and narrated
Leandro Belinaso Guimarães
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The Boletim Médico: the tuberculosis specialists’ prescription for curing the city of São José dos Campos (1930-1935)
Valéria Zanetti, Maria Aparecida Papali, Maria José Acedo del Olmo, Paula V. Carnevale Vianna
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Clinical and experimental research in nineteenth-century Brazil: the circulation and control of knowledge in medical helminthology
Flavio Coelho Edler
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DOSSIER SMALLPOX
Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson
Gilberto Hochman, Steven Palmer
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Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil
Steven Palmer, Gilberto Hochman, Danieli Arbex
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IMAGES
Twentieth-century Penelopes: popular culture revisited
Cleci Eulalia Favaro
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SOURCES
Museums and their archives: in search of sources for researching audiences
Luciana Sepúlveda Köptcke, Marcele Regina Nogueira Pereira
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
In search of a sanitary village: tuberculosis, health, and culture in Argentina since the late nineteenth century
• by Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos and Lina Faria on La ciudad impura: salud, tuberculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950, by Diego Armus
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An Argentinean public health utopia
• review by Beatriz Teixeira Weber on Higienismo argentino: historia de una utopía – la salud en el imaginário colectivo de una época, by Alejandro Kohl
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The history of science from the historian’s perspective
• review by Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira on Ciência, história e historiografia, by Martha Almeida and Moema de Rezende Vergara
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Natural history museums as a space for constructing knowledge
• review by Marcio Rangel on El desierto en una vitrina: museos e historia natural en la Argentina, 1810-1890, by Irina Podgorny and Maria Margaret Lopes
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Roosevelt and Rondon unveil a river in the Amazon
• review by José Augusto Drummond on River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s darkest journey,
by Candice Millard
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Children’s parks at São Paulo: childhood, education and health in the modernist project
• review by Janice Gonçalves on Mário de Andrade: o precursor dos parques infantis em São Paulo,
by Ana Cristina Arantes
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