Introduction to a social cartography: the journal Revista de Saúde Pública, 1967 to 1977

Abstract

Through reliance on a social cartography method based on Karl Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge, the article analyzes the first ten issues of Revista de Saúde Pública, published by the University of São Paulo. Articles and editorials are mapped in order to understand the period’s transformations. In the realm of the journal’s editorial line, tensions are noted between complying with the principles of the institution and international transformations, which demanded an openness to interdisciplinary topics. Special focus is placed on sub-fields, dominated by an epidemiology that was in flux as it absorbed new knowledge in the context of the formation of the field of public health.

Revista de Saúde Pública; cartography; science journal; sociology of knowledge; public health