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Thirteen original articles published in the supplement \u201cHealth and Slavery\u201d of the journal Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade \u2013 Manguinhos<\/em>\u00a0(Dec. 2012)\u00a0reveal how African-born and Brazilian-born slaves and freedmen lived, fell ill, were healed, or died in Brazil. The authors of these articles are affiliated with universities or research centers in countries as far-flung as France, the United States, Benin, Trinidad-Tobago, and Brazil.<\/p>\n This special issue of the quarterly journal was edited by two researchers from the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Kaori Kodama and T\u00e2nia Salgado Pimenta, and also by Fl\u00e1vio Gomes, professor and researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In their guest editors\u2019 note, they say that despite the recent \u201carray of studies and original methodologies, we still know little about how slaves lived and what their clothing and eating conditions and their diseases, therapeutic practices, and assistance systems were like.\u201d The goal of the three researchers was to present both completed work and research in progress \u201cin order to shed light on diseases, epidemics, deaths, healing arts, physicians, surgeons, sorcerers, midwives, herbs, household remedies, and unguents.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to these articles, a document featured in the Sources department shows how a surgeon in Vila Boa de Goi\u00e1s addressed the ethical issues that arose when he charged the owner of an ex-slave for his medical services in 1801. A Research Note describes survey work at archeological sites located on an old Jesuit fazenda in Campos dos Goytacazes, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The issue also features two reviews of books focused on racial issues.<\/p>\n