Vol. 2 • n. 2 • july-oct. 1995

ANALYSIS The decline and emergence of diseases MIRKO D. GRMEK abstract Natural history and eighteenth-century ideas regarding generation and heredity: Buffon and Bonnet LUZIA AURELIA CASTAÑEDA abstract From hygiene to the building of a city: the State and sanitation in Rio de Janeiro EDUARDO CESAR MARQUES abstract  João Cândido’s embroideries JOSÉ MURILO DE CARVALHO abstract IMAGES The positivist church on Benjamin Constant street text in portuguese DEBATE Documental and literary narrative in biographies ALBERTO DINES, ANA MIRANDA, FERNANDO MORAIS, JORGE CALDEIRA and ROBERTO VENTURA text in portuguese  SOURCES The history of anthropology in Brazil: Unicamp project MARIZA CORRÊA text in portuguese INTERVIEW Oracy Nogueira: sketch of an intellectual trajectory MARIA LAURA VIVEIROS DE CASTRO CAVALCANTI text in portuguese BOOKS, ARTICLES & NETWORKS Cicatriz do universal SANDER GILMAN text in portuguese Epidemiologia e emancipação JOSÉ RICARDO DE MESQUITA AYRES text in portuguese As ciências da Aids e a Aids das ciências: o discurso médico e a construção da Aids KENNETH ROCHEL DE CAMARGO JR. text in portuguese Second Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association EDWARD RIEDINCER text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese