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On June 21, 1852, in his thesis to obtain the doctoral degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, Francisco José do Canto e Mello Castro Mascarenhas recorded the first systematization of medical and surgical works, published or known in Brazil prior to the establishment of medical schools in 1832. Despite its originality, this work is still little known in Brazilian historiography, and the list of selected books is also not extensively explored by those investigating the teaching of medical professions in 19thcentury Brazil. Therefore, the objective of this article is to present, accompanied by a brief commentary on the author and the work, a complete and unpublished transcription of this pioneering bibliographic essay by Canto e Mello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on events involving public health care, governmental and social participation during two epidemic outbreaks - one of smallpox, between 1873 and 1875 and the other of cholera, between 1855 and 1856 in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The author attempts at identifying the problems experienced by the population and the public authorities when facing the epidemics. Topics related to public health services, disease management and social engagement are discussed and analyzed.

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The article focuses on a particular trend of Brazilian historiographical criticism which inaugurated a new way of working with the history of the Brazilian republican period. This trend also inaugurated a new manner of making history. The new theoretical approaches not only opened up a spectrum of thought on political representations and enunciation, but also enhanced a considerable amount of studies grounded on dense empirical research which enabled the analysis of discourse and action.

In this interview, recorded in June 1981 and only now published, the Brazilian historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902-82) makes a retrospective of his intellectual trajectory. Among other points, he talks about the genesis and repercussion of his works, tells his experiences in Germany in the later 1920's, resumes his polemics with Gilberto Freyre and Oliveira Vianna, and reveals his impressions on other intellectuals and historians who he met. Still, the historian Laura de Mello e Souza, who was one of the interviewers, presents an introductory comment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]