Since the end of 1970, the World Health Organization has encouraged the development of public policies that expand the approach to care and the therapeutic possibilities offered by its member states beyond technoscientific health care. In Brazil, the institutionalization of this approach is related to the promotion of popular and traditional knowledge associated with the usage of medicinal plants. With this convergence as an argumentative horizon, in this ethnography we examine the institutionalization of pharmaceutical services that have become known in Brazilian public health policy as living pharmacies. This term has been mobilized throughout the history of phytotherapy in Brazil and refers to the possibility of instituting the use of medications that expand care approaches and problem resolution possibilities beyond the domain of the biomedical sciences, evoking alliances with so-called traditional and popular knowledge and practices. For this, we propose and discuss the concept of neo-traditional medicines as a comprehensive-interpretative category, verifying the approximation and distancing points assigned to it in contemporaneous anthropological literature. Beyond the domain of science over other fields of knowledge, we argue in favour of this category in order to present new arrangements and social dynamics that define Brazil's medication policies.

Pedro Carlessi

José Ricardo Ayres

Canadian Journal of Health History

The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d"histoire de la médecine is the official organ of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/ Société canadienne d"histoire de la médecine and is the primary outlet in Canada for refereed scholarship in the history of medicine. This journal, published twice yearly, presents articles, notes, review articles, and book reviews in French and in English. No aspect of the general field is excluded as a matter of policy, though the particular focus is on scholarship in Canadian medical history.

The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine is the official publication of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and serves as the primary outlet in Canada for peer-reviewed scholarship in the history of medicine. This journal is published biannually and features articles, notes, review articles, and book reviews in both French and English. While no specific aspect of the general field is excluded by policy, there is a particular emphasis on scholarship related to Canadian medical history.

《Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine》是加拿大医学历史学会的官方刊物，也是加拿大医学历史领域经审稿的主要学术期刊。该期刊每年出版两期，发表法语和英语的文章、短文、综述和书评。期刊的政策是没有特定领域的限制，尽管其特别关注加拿大医学历史的学术研究。

Neo-Traditional Medicines: Ethnographic Contributions to Conceptual Definition

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