ANALYSIS
‘Formidable contagion’: epidemics, work and recruitment in Colonial Amazonia, 1660-1750
Rafael Chambouleyron, Benedito Costa Barbosa, Fernanda Aires Bombardi, Claudia Rocha de Sousa
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Lazzaro Spallanzani and fossils: from a naturalist’s travel observations to the teaching of natural history
Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes, Frederico Felipe de Almeida Faria
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The scientist as historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the origins of zoology in Brazil
Francisco Inácio Bastos, Magali Romero Sá
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Rotten meat, coffee with corn, and watered-down milk: power struggles and oversight of the food trade in the Imperial Court, 1840-1889
Juliana Teixeira Souza
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The 1853-1856 cholera epidemic in the Portuguese press
Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida
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Diseases, food, and resistance in the Bahia penitentiary, 1861-1865
Cláudia Moraes Trindade
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The battle against charlatanism: the institutionalization of scientific medicine in the province of Goiás
Sônia Maria de Magalhães
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The Laboratório de Biologia Infantil, 1935-1941: from forensic medicine to social assistance
Renato da Silva
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Health Centers: science and ideology in the re-organization of public health in the twentieth century
Guilherme Arantes Mello, Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana
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INTERVIEW
Translating Fleck: an interview with Georg Otte and Mariana Camilo de Oliveira
Given to Miriam Junghans
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RESEARCH NOTES
Sciences and the State: a critical note on some theoretical propositions
Jérôme Lamy, Arnaud Saint-Martin
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Ludwik Fleck and the sociocultural analysis of science(s)
review by Luciano Marcos Curi and Roberto Carlos dos Santos on Gênese e desenvolvimento de um fato científico, by Ludwik Fleck
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An interpretative key for Fleck in research
review by Carlos Alvarez Maia on Gênese e desenvolvimento de um fato científico, by Ludwik Fleck
Challenges in access to medicine and its proper use
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Challenges in access to medicine and its proper use
review by Nuria Homedes on Os fármacos na atualidade: antigos e novos desafios, by José Augusto Cabral de Barros
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A guide for the researcher of the history and memory of health in Rio Grande do Sul
review by Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian on Instituições de saúde de Porto Alegre: inventário, by Beatriz Teixeira Weber and Juliane C. Primon Serres
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Investigating the force: a quantitative and qualitative study of the Rio de Janeiro State Military Police Force
review by Rodrigo Monteiro on Missão prevenir e proteger: condições de vida, trabalho e saúde dos policiais militares do Rio de Janeiro, by Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Edinilsa Ramos de Souza and Patrícia Constantino
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