{"title":"Land expropriation, litigation, and reinterpretation of space in the genesis of the zoobotanical park of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 1895-1941.","authors":"Diego Leal, Nelson Sanjad","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100066en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100066en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes the construction of the zoological and botanical gardens for Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, northern Brazil. Opened in 1895 on a single property, the museum's grounds were expanded over almost fifty years until they occupied the entire block - where it remains to this day. The research investigates the compulsory acquisition, with state and federal government support, of the neighboring properties, focusing on the political discourse formulated to justify the museum's expansion and the way the affected parties resisted the acquisitions. As a result, the museum's zoobotanical park is presented as a space in constant transformation, permeated by different meanings attributed by different social groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157326","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 transatlantic conversations of doctor Honorio Delgado, 1930-1940].","authors":"Irène Favier","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100059","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The career of Honorio Delgado is a significant, albeit complex, position in the history of Peruvian and Latin American psychiatry. As an introducer of psychoanalysis and later a fierce opponent of Freudianism in the name of a biomedical approach to mental disorders, we examine his shift based on additional sources. This research note examines the psychiatrist's journeys to Germany and the influence of his books. It also hypothesizes that extrascientific factors, related to his connections with the Nazi regime, may also have contributed to this rejection. Delgado's transatlantic engagement in a scientific conversation dominated by Europe at the time may have influenced his positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025059"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12885164/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157260","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}
Ana Barahona, Franco Fabro, Diana Galván-Escobar, Lucía Granados-Riveros, Marco Ornelas-Cruces, Kapil Raj, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso, Daniel Serrano-Juárez, Erica Torrens, Teresa Villegas
{"title":"Teaching the history of science within a global context: an experience at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and its appraisals.","authors":"Ana Barahona, Franco Fabro, Diana Galván-Escobar, Lucía Granados-Riveros, Marco Ornelas-Cruces, Kapil Raj, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso, Daniel Serrano-Juárez, Erica Torrens, Teresa Villegas","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100057","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100057","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the past 150 years, Science has become central to public issues, arbitrating all aspects of human life and defining what is natural and rational. Teaching the history of science by emphasising its dynamics as a social institution and the resulting stakes in global, national, and local politics is crucial for understanding the contemporary world. This article describes a course in this discipline that challenges traditional Western perspectives to ask pertinent questions across all time periods and societies. Presented as a guided tour, the course encourages students to critically engage with science as well as its history.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984832","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":"[The technoscientific production of zika virus and zika disease: risks and insecurity in the health field].","authors":"Lívia Gonzaga Moura, Aurea Maria Zöllner Ianni","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100058","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the technoscientific production of the zika virus and disease and some implications for the health field. Articles on zika published between 1952 and 2014 were analyzed. The elements of scientific statements were collected and organized in a logical-temporal sequence. Three epistemic-discursive moments in the constitution of zika were characterized: experimental object, epidemiological object, and emergent object. In this constitutive trajectory, the central and paradoxical role of technoscientific development was highlighted. As more specialized and advanced knowledge on and techniques for the virus and disease investigation were produced, more detailed, complex ways of understanding them were created, composing a scenario of greater risks and insecurity for the health field.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984839","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":"From nature or from a laboratory? Science, health, and politics in the dispute over the origin of SARS-CoV-2.","authors":"Ricardo Waizbort, Francisco Dionísio","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100061en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100061en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the current scientific and sociopolitical discourse on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, focusing on Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley and Breathless by David Quammen. These books present contrasting narratives, highlighting competition within the scientific community and conflicts of interest. Central to the debate are the Huanan Seafood Market and Wuhan Institute of Virology, with discussions that involve zoonotic spillover and high-containment lab research. Both sources stress the need to identify the origins of the novel coronavirus to prevent future pandemics, but they diverge on key aspects, particularly regarding the importance and risks associated with laboratory research on potentially pandemic pathogens.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984849","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":"Mental health in the Cold War: the role of the Pan American Health Organization in Latin America.","authors":"Martín Manzanares Ruiz","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100062en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100062en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article describes the relationship between the Pan American Health Organization and mental health in the period from 1948 to 1990. It is based on sources produced by the Pan American Health Organization itself and the World Health Organization. The research argues that the Pan American Health Organization emerged as a key transnational agency in positioning mental health on the Latin American health agenda and, during the Cold War, contested prevailing conceptions of and approaches to this field of public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025062"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984891","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":"[Medical pluralism in Portugal in the nineteenth century? Revisiting an almost forgotten literary polemic].","authors":"Bruno Barreiros","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100060","DOIUrl":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The text analyzes a literary polemic woven in the mid-nineteenth century in Portugal between an influential politician and some of the most prominent Lisbon physicians, which focused on the scientific and clinical statute of alternative medical systems. The study seeks to portray the clinical universe of the romanticism period, showing the clinical and cultural presence of medical systems such as hydrotherapy, homeopathy, animal magnetism, among other practices. The text also problematizes the medical pluralism of that period, an aspect that is tendentially undervalued in historiographical terms. Finally, it illustrates various strategies of scientific, curricular and institutional marginalization that enabled to banish such practices from universities and historiography itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025060"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984870","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}
Paulo Henrique Nico Monteiro, Suzana Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, Ariadne Lopes Ecar
{"title":"The Rural School Group and the Butantan Institute: relations between experimental medicine and educational ruralism.","authors":"Paulo Henrique Nico Monteiro, Suzana Cesar Gouveia Fernandes, Ariadne Lopes Ecar","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100053en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702025000100053en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public research institutes in Brazil adopted the experimental medicine model as of the late nineteenth century. At the Butantan Institute [Instituto Butantan], the experimental perspective was a mark of Afrânio do Amaral's administration, between 1928 and 1938. Using the institution's own historical archive as its primary source, this study analyzes the Butantan Rural School Group [Grupo Escolar Rural de Butantan], understanding it as both a pedagogical experiment, an expression of the institution's experimental guidelines, and a model for the education movement implemented in the early 1900s by intellectuals and politicians from the state of São Paulo to mold a national identity based on \"country man.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025053"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145793712","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":"[Science iconography in The Great Inventions, by the Frenchman Louis Figuier, 1819-1894].","authors":"Breno Arsioli Moura","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702025000100052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article presents a study on the illustrations published in The Great Inventions, by the French popular science writer Louis Figuier, a book that circulated in Brazil as from the second half of the nineteenth century. The analysis indicated that the illustrations, often linked to Figuier's text, pictured the science as essentially empirical science, of great experiments, exclusively male. The conclusions in this article add new elements to the historiography on Figuier and his writings, now from the perspective of the visual sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025052"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145793723","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":"[Gama e Abreu, urban interventions and the salubrity issue in Belém in the second half of the nineteenth century].","authors":"Jorge Nassar Fleury","doi":"10.1590/S0104-59702025000100051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702025000100051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article emphasizes the urban reform interventions aimed at public health improvements in the city of Belém (PA) drawing on the actions of an emblematic social actor for this city during the second half of the nineteenth century: José Coelho da Gama e Abreu. The research used primary sources such as archives and books written by Gama e Abreu, journals, reports, letters and rare works of literature. The urban improvements highlighted a city governed by a bourgeois class rapidly rising due to the export of latex. These reforms provided the opportunity for social segregation in the urban fabric, establishing a new logic for the city.</p>","PeriodicalId":13134,"journal":{"name":"Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos","volume":"32 ","pages":"e2025051"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145793773","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}