Vol. 21 • n.2 • Apr.-Jun. 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS From measuring the rural to the rural made to measure: social representations in perspective Anjos, Flávio Sacco dos; Caldas, Nádia Velleda · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese From application to implication in medical anthropology: political, historical and narrative interpretations of the world of sickness and health Nunes, Mônica de Oliveira · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Body, disability, and stigma in the origins of the field of adapted sport in the city of Buenos Aires, 1950-1961: a mere interiorization of a devalued identity? Ferrante, Carolina · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish Potential and limits of evolutionary explanations of culture: a diachronic approach Baravalle, Lorenzo · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The construction of cancer as an object of scientific study and sanitary problem in Argentina: discourses, experimental practices and institutional initiatives, 1903-1922 Buschini, José D. · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish Sociotechnical healthcare networks for acupuncture: a case study on the basic training of medical students Roland, Maria Inês de França; Gianini, Reinaldo José · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese MEDICINE IN THE CONTEXT OF PORTUGAL, AFRICA AND BRAZIL DOSSIER Disease and cure in Mozambican health service reports from the end of the nineteenth century Roque, Ana Cristina · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese The Botanic Mission to Mozambique (1942-1948): contributions to knowledge of the medicinal flora of Mozambique Conde, Patrícia; Figueira, Rui; Saraiva, Susana; Catarino, Luís; Romeiras, Maria; Duarte, Maria Cristina · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Biomedical health care in Angola and in the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, circa 1910-1970 Varanda, Jorge · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Medical discourse and eating habits in the Hospital Real de Moçambique in the early nineteenth century Rodrigues, Eugénia · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The role of tropical medicine in the dissertations of the Porto school of medicine, 1875-1923 Costa, Rui Manuel Pinto; Vieira, Ismael Cerqueira · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 Havik, Philip Jan · abstract in English | Portuguese    · text in English The historiographical approach taken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the work of Jesuit doctors and apothecaries in the a Plata region in the eighteenth century Fleck, Eliane Cristina Deckmann · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Epidemics in the news in Portugal: cholera, plague, typhus, influenza and smallpox, 1854-1918 Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Porto and the construction of the modern city: the case of Hospital Geral de Santo António in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Silva, Helena da · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The Assistance of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil, 1918-1973 Costa, Luís Manuel Neves · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese INTERVIEW Democracy and conflict in pluralist contexts: an interview with Chantal Mouffe Mouffe, Chantal; Ramos, Aura Helena; Oliveira, Anna Luiza A. R. Martins de; Oliveira, Gustavo Gilson S. de; Mesquita, Rui Gomes de Mattos de · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish BOOKS & NETWORKS The reasons for populism Rodrigues, Léo Peixoto · text in Portuguese Invitation to the place of difference in the human rights education curriculum Costa, Hugo Heleno Camilo · text in Portuguese Charles Frederick Hartt: a romantic by education and a realist by trade Teixeira, Karoline Viana · text in Portuguese Consolidation of a new reference in public health Oliveira, Suelen Carlos de · text in Portuguese Healthcare in the era of science and technology: after all, what is health? Mendonça, André Luís de Oliveira · text in Portuguese