{"title":"[The Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola: from the New State to independence, 1955-1975].","authors":"Soraia Santos Ferreira, Daniela de Matos","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100006","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola [Angola Institute of Scientific Research] was a Portuguese colonial institution created in 1955. As an instrument of Portugal's occupation in Africa during the New State period, it played a determining role in promoting science and research activities in the natural sciences and humanities, giving rise to organizations that still exist today, such as Angola's regional and national museums. In this article we analyze new documentation to understand the history of the institute, from its founding to its decline and transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13043176/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147591707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The survival of Antiquity on the covers and int he drug ads of Eu Sei Tudo magazine, 1917-1958].","authors":"Andréa Casa Nova Maia, Douglas de Souza Liborio","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100004","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores images from the covers and advertisements for drugs from Bayer and Vikelp in an effort to investigate the survival of Greco-Roman antiquity in the illustrated magazine Eu Sei Tudo, which circulated in Brazil from 1917 to 1958. The analysis utilizes theoretical and methodological references and concepts from Aby Warburg in his analyses on nymphs and Georges Didi-Huberman, who also considered the surviving imagery. We question the presence of divine characters in the magazine, with a focus on the ideals of beauty, perfection and strength propagated by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as Greco-Roman references in modern representations of health and the healthy body.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13043177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147591786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Research and commercial exploitation in bacteriology: Silvio Dessy and the Argentine Biological Institute between 1908 and 1947].","authors":"Nicolás Facundo Rojas","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100003","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper analyzes the career of Silvio Dessy, an Italian physician who immigrated to Argentina in 1898, to explore the development of science-related professional careers outside the academic field. Dessy combined his work in public research with the commercial exploitation of therapeutic products, culminating in the creation of the Argentine Biological Institute in 1908, a company dedicated to the production of serum and vaccines. Based on Dessy's case, we investigate how, during the early days of bacteriology in Argentina, the development of science was not exclusively linked to public research but also provided opportunities to pursue private initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12952794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147354875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Evolutionary and racial ideas in Mexico: the case of Andrés Molina Enríquez in Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales (1909)].","authors":"Brian Becerra-Bressant, Ana Barahona","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100002","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper analyzes the evolutionary and racial ideas of Andrés Molina Enríquez contained in his work Los grandes problemas nacionales (1909). The work explores the concepts of superior and inferior societies, human races, indigenous attributes, and mestizaje. The analysis suggests that these themes are influenced by Molina Enríquez's evolutionary interpretations, based on Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin. Four ideas are elaborated here: internal and external forces in Haeckel and Darwin; races, from Darwin to physiology; individual and collective selection; and Molina Enríquez and Mexican evolutionism. These sections show that the author studied was a significant evolutionist in Mexico during the Porfiriato.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12952793/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147354830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instruments and agents of control: smallpox in the Río de la Plata at the beginning of the nineteenth century.","authors":"María Silvia Di Liscia","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100001en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100001en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Different systems for controlling smallpox in the early nineteenth century are investigated, considering the actions of different agents, mechanisms, and strategies involved in its organization, manufacture, and distribution. This dangerous disease emerged in the Americas following European colonization. Immunization practices arrived in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1805, coordinated first by the Protomedicato and later through the Conservatory of Vaccines. The economic hardship and wars of the fledging state hindered the inoculation of human and cowpox viruses. Humans were used as viral reservoirs, yet the epidemics remained uncontrolled. Replication of European experiments to obtain similar viruses failed to provide a safe product.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 suppl 1","pages":"e2026001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928200/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147289856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Maria José Deane, in her own (and our) words].","authors":"Laurinda Rosa Maciel, Renata Silva Borges","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100065","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100065","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper presents and transcribes excerpts from an interview with Maria José von Paumgartten Deane in 1989 on her personal and professional trajectory, as part of Casa de Oswaldo Cruz's \"Projeto Memória de Manguinhos.\" The interviewee shares her experience in the field of science from the 1930s onward within a predominantly masculine context, as well as strategies for female affirmation, and also describes her experiences working with Evandro Chagas, scientific travels and lifelong partnership with Leônidas de Mello Deane.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885481/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Aesthetic surgery and \"psychological therapy\" in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century].","authors":"Joaquín Molina","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100063","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article aims to analyze the construction of aesthetic surgery as a \"psychological therapy\" among Argentine plastic surgeons in the first half of the twentieth century. To this end, it analyzes expert and popular medical publications produced by these specialists. The article begins by raising a legal controversy surrounding the therapeutic value of aesthetic surgery. Based on this controversy, it analyzes the psychological justifications put forward in the medical literature and some case narratives that demonstrate the \"preventive\" nature of these practices. It concludes with a discussion of the initiatives undertaken by Argentine plastic surgeons to ensure affordable access to aesthetic surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025063"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885168/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Josué de Castro, author of a didactic text on geography].","authors":"Breno Viotto Pedrosa","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100064","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This text examines Josué de Castro's Geografia humana: estudo da paisagem cultural do mundo, based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu. We investigate Castro's professional and academic activity during the 1930s, focusing on his educational strategies, international connections, and the text's editing process. Castro's work is shown to be unique for its critique of race and climate as determinants for human geography and its sensitivity to popular culture. Our analysis highlights the text's contribution to geography, with the development and questioning of concepts like race, acclimatization and acculturation, in dialog with anthropology. We also note ideas that appear later in Castro's book Geografia da fome.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885167/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land expropriation, litigation, and reinterpretation of space in the genesis of the zoobotanical park of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 1895-1941.","authors":"Diego Leal, Nelson Sanjad","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100066en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100066en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes the construction of the zoological and botanical gardens for Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, northern Brazil. Opened in 1895 on a single property, the museum's grounds were expanded over almost fifty years until they occupied the entire block - where it remains to this day. The research investigates the compulsory acquisition, with state and federal government support, of the neighboring properties, focusing on the political discourse formulated to justify the museum's expansion and the way the affected parties resisted the acquisitions. As a result, the museum's zoobotanical park is presented as a space in constant transformation, permeated by different meanings attributed by different social groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The transatlantic conversations of doctor Honorio Delgado, 1930-1940].","authors":"Irène Favier","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100059","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The career of Honorio Delgado is a significant, albeit complex, position in the history of Peruvian and Latin American psychiatry. As an introducer of psychoanalysis and later a fierce opponent of Freudianism in the name of a biomedical approach to mental disorders, we examine his shift based on additional sources. This research note examines the psychiatrist's journeys to Germany and the influence of his books. It also hypothesizes that extrascientific factors, related to his connections with the Nazi regime, may also have contributed to this rejection. Delgado's transatlantic engagement in a scientific conversation dominated by Europe at the time may have influenced his positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025059"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885164/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}