{"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}
{"title":"Eradicating the germs of pauperism: the political economy of the British sanitary movement in the 1830s and 1840s.","authors":"Daniel Schneider Bastos","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100063en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100063en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article addresses the British sanitary movement in the 1830s and 1840s, analyzing the ideology that permeated official efforts to promote public health. The sources used consist primarily of the inquiries carried out by royal commissions into the state of sanitation in towns and cities. The main argument is that the ideological assumptions underpinning these inquiries can be understood as part of a political economy of public health, within which tensions can be observed arising from the contradictions between a liberal perspective and the need for greater intervention on the part of the government.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024063"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654725/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854123","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":"[Urban prophylaxis against the cholera outbreak in Arica, Chile, 1886-1888].","authors":"Pablo Chávez Zúñiga","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100065","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100065","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this research is to analyze the outbreak of cholera that occurred in the city of Arica, located on the northern border of Chile-Peru, at the end of the 1880s. The study focuses on the impact generated by the epidemics in society, medical diagnoses and the rapid spread of contagion. The creation of an institutional framework to face the health emergency and the policies that were implemented to prevent the arrival of the condition to the port are addressed. Based on specialized literature, the Arican press and the documentation of the Vicente Dagnino Historical Archive, we concluded that the cholera outbreak activated a series of political-health mechanisms that generated transformations in public and private hygiene practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654733/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854113","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":"Circulation of ideas about schizophrenia within the psychiatric context of Rio de Janeiro in the 1910s and 1920s.","authors":"Ana Teresa A Venancio, Renilson Beraldo","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100057en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100057en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article examines the circulation of the schizophrenia category in debates and psychiatric spaces in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century. It analyzes this category in the scientific exchange between Eugen Bleuler and Ernst Kretschmer - observing correspondences between psychodynamic and constitutionalist theories in the European context - and then pursues its use in the Observation Pavilion of the Hospício Nacional de Alienados, in articles and scientific meetings. We investigated how its circulation was simultaneous in scientific and assistance spaces. Furthermore, we also demonstrate that, as occurred in the European context, Brazilian psychiatrists actively participated in the transnational circulation of the schizophrenia category through its appropriation and expanded use of the semantic field \"schizo\" according to local interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11534147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142582749","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":"[Environment and public health: epidemics in Modern Age Portugal].","authors":"Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100058","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The issue of public health and epidemics is again in the spotlight today because of the recent epidemic we have experienced, which, although weaker, continues to be the object of our attention. In this article, we attempt to understand the relationship between the environment and public health, within this context exploring the main epidemics known to have occurred in Portugal in the Modern Age. Conditions in Portugal at that time were favorable for the spread of several epidemics; the environment encouraged the spread of disease and boosted virulence at a time when medicine was unable to cope, causing mortality rates to soar.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11534145/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142582736","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":"[Biomedicalization and responses to aids in Brazil: research notes].","authors":"Simone Monteiro, Mauro Brigeiro","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702024000100049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This text addresses the process of biomedicalization in the responses to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), based on field research in Rio de Janeiro and document and literature reviews. Considering the socio-anthropological perspective and social studies of science, the current predominance of preventative biomedical strategies implies both reconfigurations of the scientific and institutional order and interventions in health and sexuality. These transformations reveal an established definition of the epidemic as a clinical problem, reconfiguration of debates on sexuality and stigma, and erasure of the discussion on structural inequalities and human rights, and new studies on HIV/aids within social sciences and humanities are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11472780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464120","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 institutionalization of parasitology in São Paulo: the contributions of Émile Brumpt between 1913 and 1948.","authors":"Denis Guedes Jogas","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702024000100042en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702024000100042en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article draws on a large volume of documents retrieved from the historical archives of Institut Pasteur, in Paris, the Manguinhos library of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the Hemeroteca Digital library run by National Library of Brazil to analyze the links between the institutionalization of parasitology in São Paulo and the presence of the French physician Émile Brumpt at the São Paulo School of Medicine and Surgery in its early years. Bringing to light information from previously unresearched or little-known primary sources, this article contributes to the historiography of exchanges between French and Brazilian scholars and the institutional memory of the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"31 ","pages":"e2024042"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11472783/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464125","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}