ANALYSIS  Smallpox immunization in 19th century Brazil: inoculation, variolization, vaccine, and revaccination TANIA MARIA FERNANDES  abstract  The beginnings of the smallpox vaccine in São Paulo: a little-known storu LUIZ ANTONIO TEIXEIRA and MARTA DE ALMEIDA  abstract The vaccinal hypothesis: towards a critical and anthropological approach to a...

ANALYSIS Politics, actors, and interests in the process of institutional change: the creation of the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 1953 WANDA HAMILTON and CRISTINA FONSECA abstract  Public health in times of bureaucratization: the case of the physician Noel Nutels CARLOS HENRIQUE ASSUNÇÃO PAIVA abstract  On the origin and spread of cutaneous and mucosal...

ANALYSIS  Leprosy and the elusive M. leprae: colonial and imperial medical exchanges in the nineteenth centur JO ROBERTSON  abstract Social representation of Hansen’s disease thirty years after the term ‘leprosy’ was replaced in Brazil MARIA LEIDE WAND-DEL-REY DE OLIVEIRA, CARLA MARIA MENDES, RACHEL TEBALDI TARDIN, MÔNICA DUARTE CUNHA,...

ANALYSIS Swamps, men and crabs in Josué de Castro: meanings and their unfolding DJALMA AGRIPINO DE MELO FILHO  abstract  The institutionalization of epidemiology as a subject at Rio de Janeiro Federal University Medical School CARLOS HENRIQUE DUARTE ALVES TORRES and DINA CZERESNIA abstract  Lobotomy and leucotomy in Brazilian mental hospitals ANDRÉ LUIS...

ANALYSIS Adolpho Lutz: a biographical sketch JAIME LARRY BENCHIMOL  abstract  On ‘the abominable profession of being a vampire’: Emílio Goeldi and Mosquitos in Pará (1905) NELSON SANJAD  abstract  Epistemological frameworks of tropical medicinel SANDRA CAPONI  abstract  Salvador, world city: from Germany to Bahia MARIA RENILDA NERY BARRETO...

ANALYSIS The trail of Aids in Peru MARCOS CUETO  abstract Health and power: the political emergence of AIDS/HIV in Brazil MARIA CRISTINA DA COSTA MARQUES  abstract Economics, politics, and public health in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910) ANA MARIA CARRILLO  abstract Modernization, medicine, disease, and public health in Caracas (1870-1877) GERMÁN YÉPEZ...

ANALYSIS  The unfolding of the blood circulation doctrine: the correspondence between William Harvey and Caspar Hofmann in May 1636 REGINA ANDRÉ REBOLLO  abstract Reopening the ‘black box’: discontinuity and continuity in the discourse on Aids in the USA (1997-98) JOÃO BÔSCO HORA GÓIS  abstract The training of public school cafeteria staff:...

ANALYSIS A research experience in a peripheral region: the Amazon BARBARA WEINSTEIN  abstract Psychoanalysis and sexology in Rio de Janeiro between the two world wars: between science and self improvement SERGIO LUÍS CARRARA and JANE ARAÚJO RUSSO  abstract  The Internet and self treatment: how to put them together? LUÍS DAVID CASTIEL and PAULO ROBERTO...

ANALYSIS Eradication of poliomyelitis in Brazil: the contribution of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz HERMANN G. SCHATZMAYR; ANA MARIA BISPO DE FILIPPIS; FABIAN FRIEDRICH; MARIA DA LUZ FERNANDES LEAL abstract  Psychiatry reform in Brazil from the 1980’s to present days: its history and concepts FERNANDO TENÓRIO  abstract  Old age, normality versus...

Anpuh awards prize to Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza for his dissertation on the “racial portrait” of the Brazilian, as defined by Edgard Roquette-Pinto between 1910 and early 1930s, when the anthropologist worked at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.