{"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}
{"title":"\"The soul that goes to the doctors does not live:\" disease and illness among nineteenth-century Russian peasants.","authors":"Oksana Golovashina, Sergey K Lyamin","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100068","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article deals with the representation of illness among Russian Orthodox peasants from the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Materials from ethnographic expeditions, folklore, nineteenth-century texts on treatments, memoirs, and publications in the local press are used as sources. Analysis of the sources allowed us to reach the following conclusions: the conception of illness among Russian peasants was constructed by various actors; rural doctors were the least influential among these actors; and illnesses were represented as a consequence of mixing the world of the living and the world of the dead or the action of anthropomorphic or zoomorphic entities, with treatment implying a return to the natural (\"correct\") order of things.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024068"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854150","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 \"Prudente Plan:\" a São Paulo plan for the fight against cancer in Brazil, 1934-1954.","authors":"Elder Al Kondari Messora, André Mota","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100060en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100060en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the strategies employed by Antônio Prudente to develop an initiative aimed at combating cancer throughout Brazil, based on his experience in the state of São Paulo. The approach used in the analysis draws on both the historiographical literature and primary sources, focusing on the period from 1934, when the São Paulo Association for the Fight against Cancer was founded, to 1954, when Prudente was appointed director of the National Cancer Service. The study highlights the disputes between cancerologists from the Union and São Paulo, highlighting the uniqueness of the São Paulo proposal, marked by a combination of liberal ideals and the sentiment of \"Paulistaness.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024060"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854206","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":"[Under a pestilent land of lies: misinformation and denialism in the smallpox epidemic in Ceará, Brazil, 1900-1905, and the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, 2020-2022].","authors":"Érica Cavalcante Lima, Zilda Maria Menezes Lima","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100061","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article draws a parallel between two pathological phenomena with great social impact in different settings: the smallpox epidemic in Ceará, northeastern Brazil, between 1900 and 1905, and the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil between 2020 and 2022. Despite the historical and temporal distance between these two episodes, there are some significant similarities in the ways they were conducted politically, especially with regard to the use of fake news and misinformation on the emergency of implementing mass vaccination. The analysis makes extensive use of press reports concerning the covid-19 pandemic and writings by the pharmacist Rodolfo Teófilo, a key figure in the smallpox vaccination campaign in Ceará.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654729/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854095","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":"[Smallpox vaccination in the Brazilian province of Paraná, 1853-1863].","authors":"João Pedro Dolinski","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100064","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study reflects on the efforts to disseminate and administer the smallpox vaccine in the Brazilian province of Paraná between 1853 and 1863, taking a circulation-based perspective. Chronologically, the first milestone is the founding of Paraná and the second is the drafting of the first regulations for vaccination in the province. This research draws on the assumptions of translocal microhistory and the theoretical conceptions expounded by Kapil Raj and Fa-ti Fan. The central argument is that the factors blocking the spread of the smallpox vaccine were the very processes by which vaccination was circulated, and that popular resistance to the prophylactic agent, itself part of these processes, was not widespread.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854172","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}