Sobre a Mentalidade Africana: A Antropologia Colonial na África Portuguesa (1950-1960) e a Antropologia do Negro no Brasil

Cuore, sangue e cervello: biologia e antropologia nel pensiero antico

This interesting and provocative book tries to set Greek ideas down to Aristotle on the heart, blood, and brain as the source of life within their general social and philosophical context, and to provide them with an anthropology. To do this, the authors employ a series of theoretical antinomies-e.g. heart/brain, technician/ prophet, democrat/oligarch, experience/intuition, sensation/intellect-...

Tecnologias e redes informacionais e suas implicações sobre a força de trabalho no Brasil

The use of information technology networks and its impact on the labor force by means of continued education at a distance is but a few of the most appropriate ways of carrying out an analysis and identification – all assisted by theoretical construct – of the changes that are now taking place in our so called information/knowledge society. It has been, therefore, the main purpose of this work ...

Ficcao cientifica, fantasia e horror no Brasil 1875-1950 (review)

Anthropology in Research on the Quality of Health Services Antropologia e Pesquisa sobre Qualidade dos Serviços de Saúde

ATKINSON, S. J. Anthropology in Research on the Quality of Health Services. Cad. Saúde Públ., Rio de Janeiro, 9 (3): 283-299, jul/sep, 1993. Current crisis in the health sector has increased research directed towards quality of health services. Public health research on quality of services commonly assessed adherence to predefined criteria for building structure, equipment and technical procedu...

[(Inter)disciplinary spaces: Food/Nutrition/Health/Public Health].

Maria Lúcia Bosi e Shirley Prado apresentam um texto instigante e necessário, pelos dilemas que levanta em face da questão de situar a Alimentação/Nutrição no vasto campo do conhecimento e da ciência, especialmente porque remete a relações que são caras à epistemologia e à história da ciência, tais como individual/coletivo, natural/social/cultural, objetividade/subjetividade, estrutural/relacio...