Susana María Ramírez Martín, Jaqueline Hasan Brizola, Tânia Salgado Pimenta, Gutiele Gonçalves Dos Santos
{"title":"[The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition: interview with Susana Ramírez Martín].","authors":"Susana María Ramírez Martín, Jaqueline Hasan Brizola, Tânia Salgado Pimenta, Gutiele Gonçalves Dos Santos","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100025","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this interview, Professor Susana Ramírez Martín discusses her academic career and the challenges of pursuing an interdisciplinary field, especially in Spain. She highlights how the historiography of medicine and health has developed with significant participation from medical practitioners. She also explores topics from her research on the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, offering comparative reflections on the introduction of Jenner's vaccine in Spanish and Portuguese America.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 suppl 1","pages":"e2026025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13450907/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148724859","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":"Beriberi in Brazil: the historical constitution of a disease.","authors":"Sônia Maria de Magalhães","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100022en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100022en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deficiency diseases were first investigated in Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century, especially in response to reports of urban poverty. Beriberi, which is currently understood as resulting from vitamin B1 deficiency in the human body, is one of the diseases most researched by scientists and doctors. This analysis proposes to historicize the disease by revisiting the medical debate, observing its social impacts until the constitution of a medical-scientific fact, when Brazilian doctors, inspired by infection- and nutrition-related theories, engaged intensively in discussions until a thought collective was formed, as conceived by Ludwig Fleck, and they agreed it was a vitamin deficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13403529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148619807","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":"[Dataplamt: a bibliographic database on traditional uses of Brazilian plants].","authors":"Maria das Graças Lins Brandão","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100024","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unlike remedies from ancient systems like Chinese traditional medicine and Ayurveda, records of the traditional uses of Brazilian plants are scattered and lack interpretation. Dataplamt was created to recover this knowledge and make it readily available, and already contains data on 3,464 species recovered from 114 texts written prior to 1950; it spans 170 medicinal categories, with 28 addressing infectious or parasitic diseases. It also includes native plant names, confirming their ancestral roots. The Dataplamt database makes it possible to identify resilient traditional uses, which are important for developing traditional herbal products, and also contributes to the bioeconomy and spreading information about Brazil's plants to the general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13403528/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148619851","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":"[Populational choreography: historical cartography, politics and environment in the dispute between Piauí and Ceará surrounding the Ibiapaba mountain].","authors":"Luís Carlos Albano Duarte Sousa","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100011","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the uses of historical cartography in the territorial dispute between the states of Piauí and Ceará in a civil suit (1.831/2011) filed in Brazil's Supreme Court. We base our analysis on historical maps from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in order to understand continuities and transformations in how this region is represented. This analysis is then contrasted with documentation from the Overseas Historical Archive and the Brazilian Army's Technical Report on the dispute in order to relate the active role played by the environment, political influences with representations of the zones involved in the dispute, showing how cartography still serves to \"reflect the world.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13317121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148368189","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":"From Brazil to Japan: war, education and circulation of knowledge in the travels of Robert King Hall, 1940-1946.","authors":"Adriana Mendonça Cunha","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100013en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100013en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes the relationship between observations by the American educator Robert King Hall on the national integration of immigrants in Brazil and his proposals for education in postwar Japan. Hall's 1940 trip to Brazil under the aegis of the Good Neighbor Policy exposed him to Japanese teaching methods, knowledge which equipped him to subsequently participate in educational reforms in occupied Japan. In line with studies on the circulation of knowledge, this analysis addresses Hall's work on Brazilian and Japanese education, and argues that his experience in Brazil was important for his role as an intellectual in the service of the US government.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13317118/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148368202","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":"[Eugenics in the Luso-Brazilian axis: correspondence between Renato Kehl and Mendes Correia].","authors":"Daniel Florence Giesbrecht","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100014","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study uses a critical intellectual history perspective to examine letters between Renato Ferraz Kehl and Antonio Mendes Correia, who were active in eugenic discourse in Brazil and Portugal. This correspondence serves as a vehicle of scientific consecration, revealing a transatlantic field of asymmetric exchanges marked by disputes for prestige, editorial strategies and epistemic authority. Based on the categories of habitus and symbolic capital, the letters are seen as performative artifacts of eugenic rationality, located between the intimate and the institutional. Our analysis reveals not only the contents but also the silences and frustrations within this relationship, showing how eugenics was negotiated and instrumentalized in the Atlantic Luso-Brazilian Atlantic context.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026014"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13228121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148149623","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":"[Child prodigies, venerable sages: the historical scientist in Colombian children's and young adult literature].","authors":"Jorge M Escobar Ortiz","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100010","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children's and young adult literature is often seen as a means to introduce this public to cultural discussions about science. This would aim to promote scientific careers and reduce gender gaps. The article shows how Colombian literary tradition has facilitated this goal by combining moral instruction and rational entertainment, portraying the historical scientist as a wise, gifted, and self-taught child misunderstood by society. This raises the question of whether this imagery addresses scientific careers and gender gaps.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13228122/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148149621","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":"Leprosy and Christian conversion in twentieth-century Inhambane, Mozambique.","authors":"Isabel Casimiro, Júlio Machele","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100015","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on observations and interviews carried out in Maputo and Inhambane and on an analysis of primary sources from the Historical Archive of Mozambique, we show how the Africans in contact with the Methodist Episcopal Church were not passive victims of Protestant proselytism in that they showed agency by adapting creatively to exploit its presence in a context of leprosy. The research shows how new identities have been created in the researcher-researched relationship, but also how issues related to cultural shock and gender relations have permeated research in the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13228123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148149572","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 scientific journal, beyond experts: the communication strategies of The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.","authors":"Germana Barata, Carolina Ferreira Medeiros","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100005en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100005en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health sector pioneered the dialog with society, the media, health professionals and decision-makers, due to great public interest in this area and its social responsibility. Two internationally prestigious journals with two centuries of history (The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet) are examples of communication strategies that extend beyond the walls of academia. This article analyzes the editorial policies, commemorative editorials and communication strategies of these two journals in order to understand their relationship with the public throughout history. This analysis shows that communication to non-experts is an important part of editorial policies, and has expanded over the years in both journals.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13170114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147947645","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":"Changes and continuity in the editorial management of História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos in 2026.","authors":"Marcos Cueto, Gabriel Lopes","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100008en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702026000100008en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"33 ","pages":"e2026008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13170110/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147947587","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}