ANALYSIS
The dawning of a new science
Pedro Motta de Barros
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Constructing the legitimacy of a health-care profession
Marta V. Schapira
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The Rio de Janeiro Medical and Surgical Society: the genesis of an alternative institutional network
Luiz Otávio Ferreira, Marcos Chor Maio and Nara Azevedo
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Technical work in health-care R&D laboratories: a case study
Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira, Tânia C. M. Nunes and José Manuel C. de Mello
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Violence and health care as an interdisciplinary field and an arena for collective action
Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo and Edinilsa Ramos de Souza
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IMAGES
Emblems of time: images in the Rio de Janeiro press from the turn of the 20th century
Ana Maria Mauad
text in portuguese
DEBATE
Equality and difference
Benilton Bezerra Jr., Muniz Sodré, Neuma Aguiar, Nilson do Rosário Costa , Sabado Girardi, Jeni Vaitsman (coord.)
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
A majestade do Xingu by Moacyr Scliar
• reviewed by Marcus Vinicius de Freitas
text in portuguese
A vida de laboratório: a construção dos fatos científicos by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar
• reviewed by Simone Petraglia Krop and Luiz Otávio Ferreira
text in portuguese
Cidade febril: cortiços e epidemias na corte imperial de Sidney Chalhoub e
Salud, cultura y sociedade en America Latina: nuevas perspectivas historicas by Marcos Cueto (org.)•reviewed by Nancy Leys Stepan
text in portuguese
Raça, ciência e sociedade byMarcos Chor Maior, Ricardo Ventura Santos (orgs.)
• reviewed by Roberto Motta
text in portuguese
THESES
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