ANALYSIS
The weight of pathological: bio-politics and bare life
Cristiane Marques Seixas, Joel Birman
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The objectives of the U.S. Exploring Expedition’s circumnavigation (1838-1842): longitude, nautical charting and the establishment of modern geographic coordinates*
Mary Anne Junqueira
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Stem cell research: a case study on the dynamics of one segment of a scientific field
Naara Luna
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From miasmas to mosquitoes: medical thought on yellow fever in Yucatan, 1890-1920
Carlos Alcalá Ferráez
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Counting to cure: statistics and the medical community in Argentina, 1880-1940
Claudia Daniel
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Colombian initiatives in the Social Appropriation of Science and Technology: tendencies and challenges for a broader understanding of these dynamics
Tania Pérez-Bustos, Manuel Franco Avellaneda, Marcela Lozano Borda, Sigrid Falla, Diana Papagayo
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The formation of the field of psychiatry: two opposing perspectives
Jairo Roberto de Almeida Gama
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Eating education and the making of strong, robust, productive workers: an analysis of scientific scholarship on nutrition in Brazil, 1934-1941
José Arimatea Barros Bezerra
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On the autonomy of the mouth: curricular practices, professional identity, and the emergence of dental teaching in Brazil
Cristine Maria Warmling, Norma Regina Marzola, Carlos Botazzo
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“Is a shot alone enough?”: concepts of health, hygiene, and nutrition and the Program to Eradicate Yaws in Brazil, 1956-1961
Érico Silva Muniz
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Family health through the lens of mental hygiene
Renata Heller de Moura; Maria Lucia Boarini
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“Pregnant belly showing”: the vicissitudes and valorization of the reproductive body in the construction of images of pregnancy
Eliane Portes Vargas
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DOSSIER ARCHIVES
The utopian Darcy Ribeiro archive
Luciana Quillet Heymann
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Photographs in archives: the production and meaning of visual records
Aline Lopes de Lacerda
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An archival approach: the documents of a biomedical sciences laboratory
Paulo Roberto Elian dos Santos
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IMAGENS
A look through the Mexican Department of Health’s film archive
María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Reversal of crime: hostile norms, a cruel society, and subjective escape through violence
review by Marília Etienne Arreguy on A história de Pierina: subjetividade, crime e loucura, by Yonissa Marmitt Wadi
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Sanitation versus environment: engineering and politics at the end of the Empire and under the First Republic
review by Pedro Eduardo Mesquita de Monteiro Marinho on Meio ambiente, saneamento e engenharia no Império e na Primeira República, by Simone Fadel
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Theory, critical analysis, and the challenge of interdisciplinary thought at the crossroads of collective health, the environment, and geography
review by Lúcia Cony Faria Cidade on Território, ambiente e saúde, by Ary Carvalho de Miranda et al. (Org.)
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