Vol. 5 • n. 1 • Mar.-June 1998

ANALYSIS Ethics and ideology in the science of Nollet and Franklin Lewis Pyenson abstract Journey(s) to Santos Henrique Luiz Cukierman abstract The genesis and development of alimentary education: the creation of a norm Eronides da Silva Lima abstract Stories of life, stories of culture Fernando Sergio Dumas dos Santos abstract From mystical panacea to medical specialization: acupuncture as portrayed by the written press Marilene Cabral do Nascimento abstract The city imagined, or the city’s imaginary Maria Aparecida Lopes Nogueira abstract SOURCES José Francisco Xavier Sigaud: a forgotten figure, a revealing work Luiz Otávio Ferreira text in portuguese A pioneering catalogue of biographies for science historians Sergio Goes de Paula text in portuguese A contribution to the history of science: the archive of the National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq) Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim e Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues text in portuguese IMAGES Cinematographers of Rio de Janeiro (1896-1925)) Renato da Gama-Rosa Costa text in portuguese RESEARCH NOTE “Êh minas… Êh Minas…” Geoscientific activities in colonial Brazil: a study of José Vieira Couto’s mineralogical work (late 18th to early 19th centuries) Clarete Paranhos da Silva text in portuguese DEBATE Dengue fever in Brazil keyla Marzochi, Paulo gadelha, Milton Moura Lima, Luís Borges, Jair Rosa Duarte, Ricardo Lourenço de Oliveira text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS Image and logic byPeter Galison • reviewed by Bernardo J. Oliveira text in portuguese A miragem da pós-modernidade: democracia e políticas sociais no contexto da globalização by Silvia Gerschman and Maria Lúcia Werneck Vianna (orgs.) • reviewed by Jawdat Abu-El-Haj text in portuguese Sobre o risco: para compreender a epidemiologia by José Ricardo de Mesquita Ayres • reviewed by Dina Czeresnia text in portuguese El regreso de las epidemias: salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX byMarcos Cueto Lima • reviewed by Rodolpho Telarolli Junior text in portuguese Médicos italianos em São Paulo (1890-1930): um projeto de ascensão social byMaria do Rosário Rolfsen Salles • reviewed by Maria Alice Rosa Ribeiro texto em português Fome: uma (re)leitura de Josué de Castro de Rosana Magalhães • reviewed by Nísia Trindade Lima text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese