{"title":"Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance: an interview with Alexandre White.","authors":"Alexandre White, Gabriel Salgado Ribeiro de Sá","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100010","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. White's extensive research on infectious disease regulation is examined, covering his motivations, ongoing projects, and the pivotal role of comparative methods in the field. His theoretical frameworks are also highlighted for the valuable insights they provide for understanding the complex dynamics of global health, particularly amidst emerging international tensions surrounding infectious diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Peripheral promises: expectations, coalitions and covid-19 vaccines in Argentina].","authors":"María Cecilia Sanmartin, Gabriela Bortz","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100008","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Covid-19 vaccines have shown great promise in addressing the health crisis, including in the global periphery. This work analyzes the construction and mobilization of technoscientific promises to ensure vaccine access in Argentina. Based on the analysis of newspaper notes and interviews, in an approach bringing together social science and technology studies, we examine coalitions of key actors, technoscientific promises, and cognitive, symbolic, and material elements coordinated around \"covid-19 vaccines\" that materially support these promises. This work allows us to delve deeper into the legitimization repertoires for decision-making and seeks to show how a \"peripheral\" promise can be fulfilled and materialized.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[\"To an unknown family:\" letters from displaced Europeans to the Brazilian Red Cross, Rio Grande do Sul branch, in the post-Second World War period].","authors":"Rosane Marcia Neumann","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100006","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study addresses the multiple demands forwarded via letters to the International Red Cross, Porto Alegre branch (Rio Grande do Sul state), by persons from Eastern Europe displaced to the German territory, in the immediate post-Second World War period (1946-1949). This epistolary writing or letter-writing is understood as fragmentary narratives of life trajectories. The aim is to understand how the sender articulates ethnic and religious belonging and human compassion to sensitize the potential reader in Rio Grande do Sul, in order to receive a package of groceries, clothes, and other donations. Therefore, this writing of the self unveils some aspects of the miserable post-war daily life, its dramas and traumas, lived and narrated by anonymous protagonists, and the work of mediation, listening and assistance of transnational humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11967201/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763910","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":"[Sports, entertainment and health in Curitiba in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries].","authors":"Leonardo do Couto Gomes, Wanderley Marchi Júnior","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100007","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present text discusses the relationships between stimulating sports and physical recreational experiences and health concerns promoted in the city of Curitiba between the final years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The period is marked by the emergence of hobby artifacts and structures in the capital of Paraná state, which became associated with ideas of public health. Curitiba newspapers from the period were used as sources. It was possible to observe that sports and physical entertainment demonstrated harmony with the ideals of urban modernization and strengthening of health in favor of a robust nation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11967200/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763912","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":"[Getúlio Vargas and the Water Code in the \"reconstruction\" of Brazil, 1930-1945: beyond energy and below salubrity].","authors":"Fábio Alexandre Dos Santos","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100001","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective is to reflect on the Water Code (1934) and the water supply and sewage collection services in Brazil during the first government of Getúlio Vargas. Treated by historiography mostly as an instrument to regulate the hydroelectric energy sector, the code presents elements that go beyond it: regulating the use of \"water\" imposed by the situation of expanded capital accumulation and systematizing diffuse legislation and its different uses, highlighting issues such as salubrity, pollution etc. Such elements, in turn, correspond to Vargas' plans to \"rebuild\" the nation. To this end, a historiographical assessment of the themes was carried out and the relevant legislation was analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11832115/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143448951","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":"[Managing science in the dictatorship: a profile of general directors of Capes, CNPq and Finep, 1964-1985].","authors":"Maria Caramez Carlotto, Demétrio G C de Toledo","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100075","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a prosopography of the leaders of science and technology policy in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship. We draw the social profile of the general directors of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior (Capes), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) between 1964 and 1985, looking at variables such as gender, region of origin, course and university of training, and professional career. We proposed an approach anchored in historical sociology, analyzing the social trajectory of the agents and the conflicts in the academic-scientific field. The research revealed that the management of the science and technology policy during the dictatorship was controlled by male professors trained in traditional professional courses, a profile similar to that of the presidents of Brazilian universities.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024075"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11812523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399111","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 modernization of medical training at Escola Paulista de Medicina and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1956-1962.","authors":"Ricardo Dos Santos Batista","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702024000100074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study analyses scientific knowledge circulation between Brazil and the United States, drawing on Rockefeller Foundation's funding to Escola Paulista de Medicina to modernize medical training. The chosen initial chronological landmark is 1956, when the foundation started funding the Brazilian institution, and the final year is 1962, deadline for spending the grants. The study's sources are dossiers collected at Rockefeller Archive Center, analyzed drawing on the evidential paradigm. The conclusion is that when the philanthropic agency decided to finance the school, the latter was already part of an international network of knowledge circulation, and its medical training modernization comprised investments in basic sciences, clinical practice, and the defense of full-time departments.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11723584/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143004632","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":"Medical knowledge and traditional healing practices of the Bororo: reports from an expedition to the interior of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 1911.","authors":"Robson Mendonça Pereira","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702024000100073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This text analyzes the medical reports of doctor Murillo de Campos on an expedition by the Rondon Commission to the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in 1911. Originally published as a scientific article, the report begins by detailing the nosological profile in the places visited and the customs of the inhabitants. It then presents a detailed fieldwork report into the healing practices of the Bororo indigenous people in eastern Mato Grosso. An investigative approach is employed to describe the therapeutic methods used by the healers, particularly the extensive use of medicinal plants. The analysis demonstrates that Campos acted as an intermediary between medical knowledge and Bororo healing practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024073"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11723583/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143004631","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":"[History of the Memory of the Scientific Collections from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz: conditions of possibility for the writing of history of science].","authors":"Rafaella Lúcia de Azevedo Ferreira Bettamio","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100067","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The collection of oral history interviews from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, is the starting point for a reflection on the conditions of possibility for the writing of history of science. The study traces the history of the production of this memory by drawing on interviews from the collection and making analyses of new oral history testimonials from 2023, directing special attention to the intentions, choices, gaps, and other narrative operations involved in the patrimonialization of this memory about the scientific collections from the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. The research is affiliated to cultural heritage management studies, in particular those studies that probe the situated nature of scientific knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024067"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654737/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854166","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":"[A forgotten medical dissertation from the eighteenth century: the \"Memoir on the heroic virtues of quinoa,\" by José Manuel Dávalos].","authors":"Rafael Cerpa Estremadoyro","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100062","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Presented herein is the unpublished translation of a manuscript in French, the \"Memoir on the heroic virtues of quinoa.\" Through this work, the Peruvian physician José Manuel Dávalos tried to be appointed as a foreign member of the prestigious Royal Society of Medicine, from France, at the end of 1787. Despite a laudatory letter of introduction from a Spanish diplomat, his application was rejected, possibly due to Dávalos' lack of credibility in the sense of David Bloor or Steven Shapin. The introduction also provides the historical context in which the Peruvian doctor's work is inscribed, highlighting the central characteristics of the medical institution to which the Limenean doctor sought membership.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024062"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654732/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854154","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}