ANALYSIS
Public and private in times of the pest
Sandra Caponi
abstract
The small pox vaccine: its first century in Brazil (from the Jennerian to the animal vaccine)
Tania Fernandes
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The city and the death: yellow fever and its impact on funeral customs in Rio de Janeiro (1849-50)
Cláudia Rodrigues
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From the antiquity of man in Argentina’s Plata region to the distribution of antiquities across the map: the organization of the Museu de La Plata’s anthropological colletion, 1897-1930
Irina Podgorny
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Reason, pluralism, and argumentation: Chaim Perelman’s contribution
Márcio Silveira Lemgruber
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Higher education and the organization of research: the economics of teaching reform in Brazil
Marcelino José Jorge
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Labor and mental hygiene: the process of discourse production in this field in Brazil
Alexandre Magno Teixeira de Carvalho
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IMAGES
Marks of tragic times: cartoons on the 1996 epidemic in Caruaru
Djalma A. Melo Filho, Christianne E. M. Holmes, Maria Bernadete C. Antunes, Luiz Oscar C. Ferreira, Geane Bezerra
text in portuguese
SOURCES
The sciences at dom Joao’s Palace…
José Carlos de Oliveira
text in portuguese
RESEARCH NOTE
The Fundação Oswaldo Cruz’s Scientific Vocation Program (Provoc) as a valuable educational strategy
Ana Maria Amâncio, Ana Paula R. de Queiroz, Antenor Amâncio Filho
text in portuguese
BOOKS & NETWORKS
A descoberta do homem e do mundo by Adauto Novaes org.
• reviewed by Marcus Vinicius de Freitas
text in portuguese
A era do saneamento: as bases da política de saúde pública no Brasil
by Gilberto Hochman
• reviewed by André Campos
text in portuguese
O fim da ciência: uma discussão sobre os limites do conhecimento científico
by John Horgan
• reviewed by Hugo Lovisolo
text in portuguese
Projeto e missão: o movimento folclórico brasileiro — 1947-1964
by Luís Rodolfo Vilhena
• reviewed by Glaucia Villas Bôas
text in portuguese
THESES
text in portuguese