Vol. 4 • n. 2 • July-Oct. 1997

ANALYSIS Post-normal science and extended peer communities in the face of environmental challenges Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz abstract From race to health in Master and slave Luiz Antonio Teixeira abstract Health care reform in Mexico and the dynamics and politicization of interests: an approach Raquel Abrantes Pêgo abstract Recruitment of the elite, changes in social composition, and the ‘medical crisis’ in Rio Grande do Sul Odaci Luiz Coradini abstract Georges Canguilhem and the epistemological status of the concept of health Sandra Caponi abstract Destruction and protection of Rio de Janeiro’s Atlantic rain forest: a bibliographical essay on eco-history Arthur Soffiat abstract IMAGES The construction of Oswaldo Cruz’s image Paulo Knauss text in portuguese The Collection Monument to the Memory of Oswaldo Cruz Verônica Martins de Brito text in portuguese INTERVIEW Stories of physicians: work lives in the transition from liberal professional practice to technological medicine Lilia Blima Schraiber text in portuguese SOURCES Researching the nineteenth century: the Museu Imperial’s historical archives Begonha Bediaga text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS As ciências geológicas no Brasil: uma história social e institucional: (1875-1934), by Silvia Figueirôa • reviewed by Christina Helena Barboza text in portuguese Primeiros tempos da saúde pública em São Paulo, byRodolpho Telarolli Junior • reviewed by Lina Rodrigues de Faria text in portuguese Expedição Langsdorff: acervo e fontes históricas, by Boris Komissarov • reviewed by Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese