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Summary   7 INTRODUCTION Marilena Chaui   15 PREFACE Antonio Candido   SILENT PICTURE 21 I PRIMITIVE SCENE 73 II NIGHT SWEATS 87 III REPETITION 123 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philosopher writes emotional torture report during military regime Book by Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes, a former USP professor who was expelled from the university by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s, has an introduction by Marilena Chaui and a preface by Antonio Candido During the Brazilian military-civilian dictatorship (1964-1985), the acts of speaking and silencing…

Summary   Introduction 1 THE EMERGENCY OF THE ORGANISM Anatomy and physiology in A Treatise of Human Nature 13 The organic form according to Hume 39 The art of creating worlds 67 Machine and system in Adam Smith 97 The Encyclopedia and the Art of Systems 123 Buffon and the original design of nature 145…

Philosopher discusses the multiplicity of the concept of nature from the Enlightenment The difficulty of defining the term in philosophy dates back to the Encyclopaedia, and is now debated from the point of view of Hume’s Empiricism and Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy   The emergence of Biology as a science in the nineteenth century was preceded…

Rheumatologist presents a manual of pain Pedro Ming Azevedo presents a detailed account of persistent pain syndromes, with an emphasis on fibromyalgia From time to time, we all feel pain. One bad night’s sleep and we wake up with a stiff neck that may annoy us for days. A tenser period at work and that…

Preface 9 Note to fibromyalgia patients 13   Part 1 – Pathophysiology 15 1 We are not alone 17 History 17 Epidemiology 18 Social impact 20   2 Fibromyalgia and central sensitivity syndromes 23 Fibromyalgia symptoms 26 Central sensitivity syndromes 26   3 Diagnosing fibromyalgia 31 Exclusion diagnosis: when you hear hoofbeats, think of zebras…

Twentieth-Century Revolutions: A Collection [Coleção Revoluções do Século 20] This series, organized and overseen by Emília Viotti da Costa, one of the most eminent Brazilian historians, displays an ample global panorama of the revolutions of the twentieth century. Written by authors of varied nationalities and diverse political positions, the books are intended to promote awareness…

A study into Freud’s world unveils his interest in women A psychoanalyst examines Freud’s environment to understand how the father of psychoanalysis established his models and concepts At the end of the nineteenth century, some clinical symptoms challenged the rational knowledge of medicine. Unable to physically identify what afflicted some women, they were labeled hysterical….

Summary 1 A discomfort in psychoanalysis 11 2 Politics, society and Viennese women in the 19th century 19 3 Freud’s Women 55 4 Schnitzler’s Women 85 5 Gustav Klimt’s Women 123 6 The women of Vienna: a symptom of an age 155 Bibliographic references 181

A study grounded in the history of the anonymous and their immediate social relations dismantles myths about slavery in Brazil Two scholars take “History of Private Life” as a starting point to recover new aspects of marriage and family relations among Brazilian slaves For many decades, it was believed that family relations among slaves were…