{"title":"The impact of epidemics on inland development in Qing Taiwan, 1684-1895.","authors":"Junling Huang, Qiying Wang","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100048","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the early Qing dynasty, Taiwan remained largely undeveloped, with vast areas covered in dense wilderness and forests. The terms zhangli and zhangyi, which appear frequently in historical documents, most likely cover a variety of epidemic diseases such as malaria, dysentery, cholera, and scarlet fever. Following the Opium Wars, as Western powers increased pressure on Taiwan, the Qing government sought to intensify inland development. However, persistent epidemics in the mountainous regions hindered efforts to \"open the mountains and pacify the aborigines.\" These health challenges significantly affected Taiwan's development during the Qing dynasty, experiences which share many similarities with the history of South America.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12541795/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145421687","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":"Integralism and eugenics: the role of women in Brazilian fascism's national regeneration project.","authors":"Gabriela Santi Pacheco","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100046","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 1920s and 1930s were marked by a need for social modernization. Some modern nation-building projects had nationalist and authoritarian overtones, and some proposals for State renewal were developed on the basis of eugenic concepts. In Brazil, Brazilian Integralist Action (Ação Integralista Brasileira, AIB) was the largest fascist movement outside Europe, with a State-building project underpinned by a eugenics program. This study investigates how eugenics influenced integralism and especially how women engaged in the integralist movement. Based on the empirical study of printed sources, the discourse about gender-specific roles in this context is revealed, as are the functions of the \"green blouses\" in AIB's eugenic project.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025046"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12541796/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145421638","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":"Saving explorers and healing Amazonians: a history of the Tabloid medicine chest used in Hamilton Rice's 1919-1920 Amazon expedition.","authors":"Victor Rafael Limeira-daSilva","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100047","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper draws connections and parallels between the promoted objective of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s Tabloid medicine chests and the capitalist and scientific ideals related to modernising the Amazon, which were advanced by the physician and geographer Alexander Hamilton Rice. Using an object-biographical approach, I explore the context of the promotional discourse surrounding the Tabloid chests and detail the contents of the medicine chest Rice carried throughout his 1919-1920 expedition, considering the pathological imaging fostered by the company and its customer. The relationships between this marketing discourse and Rice's search for scientific recognition and publicity as a quintessential explorer are also analysed.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025047"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12541797/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145421704","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":"[Conversations, interactions and emotional reactions during family visits to QuitoZoo, Ecuador].","authors":"Jéssica Beck Carneiro, Luisa Massarani, Graziele Scalfi, Martín Bustamante, Gabriela Arevalo, Jorge Heredia","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100045","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This qualitative, exploratory study aimed to deepen knowledge about family experience at zoos. By analyzing conversations, interactions and emotions, we sought to understand how family groups build strategies and interpret the meaning of the visit. Nine family groups participated in the recordings at QuitoZoo. The material was uploaded to Dedoose software and categorized according to a pre-established protocol, followed by the analysis of the perceptual, biological, and connection categories. The family members interacted and discussed scientific topics that reflected emotions and connections. They used cognitive engagement strategies and constructed meanings from their experience at the exhibit, which can aid learning and lead, in the long term, to develop conservation values.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025045"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12517544/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145300039","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":"International dissemination of Brazil's public health system and its technical cooperation initiatives for sickle cell disease, 2006-2010.","authors":"Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100039en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100039en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study is aligned with other research that critically analyzes the way sickle cell disease has been framed as a global burden to health since the 2000s. To this end, the study investigates Brazilian attempts to establish structural technical cooperation programs in health with Benin, Ghana, and Senegal, based on the comprehensive care model offered to people with sickle cell disease under its public health system, the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS). This international initiative is part of a broader drive to disseminate internationally the values of universalism and equality, enshrined in the Brazilian health reform and embodied in SUS.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025039"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12459757/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145130581","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":"Majestic palm trees: tropical nature and imagination in the context of nineteenth century European imperialism.","authors":"Alessandra El Far","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100042en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100042en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes how palm trees were represented in the nineteenth century as majesties of tropical nature by European botanists and horticulturists amid an imagination of colonial domination. To this end, I will examine texts and images in horticultural publications, printed in England, France, Belgium and Portugal, which repeatedly conveyed the idea of the tropics as a place governed by its nature, in which the palm tree gained centrality, in contrast to Europe, taken as a model of civilization. It was in this context that the sumptuous palm houses came to be constructed, which also functioned as privileged symbols of European domination over the tropics.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025042"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12459758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145130579","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":"[Colonial collections at the Universidade de Lisboa: criteria for characterizing sensitive heritage].","authors":"Catarina Simões, Catarina Mateus, Ana Godinho","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100030","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The collections of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical were integrated into the Universidade de Lisboa in 2015, leaving the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência responsible for their management, preservation and access. This historical and scientific heritage includes archives, libraries, natural history, archaeological and ethnographic collections, scientific instruments and the Jardim Botânico Tropical. Most of the collections were created as part of colonial scientific missions promoted by the Portuguese government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article reflects on this heritage in light of contemporary debates on the legacies of colonialism, presenting the museum's work to address, identify and describe its historically and culturally sensitive collections.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32Suppl 1 Suppl 1","pages":"e2025030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12424437/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033282","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":"[Colonial collections in Portugal and their invisibilities: João Jardim and the Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz].","authors":"Maria Figueira, Quintino Lopes, Elisabete Pereira","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100031","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Learning about the actors associated with the development of collections helps trace the signs of coloniality in museum discourse. The case of João dos Santos Pereira Jardim, the main donor of a collection in the ethnography section of the Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz, confirms that military campaigns in colonial territories were key to enriching the collections of Portuguese museums. By reconstructing the journey of this military officer and the significance of two objects he collected, we reveal how this type of actor contributed to the growth of collections and prevailing Eurocentric narratives in museums.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32Suppl 1 Suppl 1","pages":"e2025031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12424436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033285","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":"[Non-European collections from the former Anthropology Museum at the University of Porto's Faculty of Science].","authors":"Rita Neves Gaspar","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100044","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The collections of the former Anthropology Museum at the Faculty of Science (established in 1912) are now part of the Natural History and Science Museum at the University of Porto. The museum contains 125,000 objects in archaeology, ethnography, biological anthropology and numismatics, including some collections of non-European origin. This study investigates how the non-European ethnographic collections (around 1,100 objects) were incorporated throughout the twentieth century, examining documentary sources and surveying biographies of the objects and collections to identify provenance and associated actors. Exploring how objects were incorporated and documented allows us to glimpse how changes in the scientific paradigm reflect in the organization of collections in memory institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32Suppl 1 Suppl 1","pages":"e2025044"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12503229/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145206227","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}