Vol. 5 • n. 2 • June-Oct. 1998

ANALYSIS Science and nation: romanticism and natural history in the works of E. J. da Silva Maia Lorelai Kury abstract History of public health in Mexico: 19th and 20th centuries Ana Cecilia Rodríguez Romo e Martha Eugenia Rodríguez Pérez  abstract Parabolic parables: predictive genetic testing, social constructions of risk, and the relation between health-care professionals and the mass media Luis David Castiel abstract The social sciences’ other health-care discourse Maria Cristina Wanzo  abstract Bleeders and healers in Brazil (1808-28) Tânia Salgado Pimenta  abstract Brazil within the concert of nations: the struggle against racism in the early days of Unescoo Marcos Chor Maio  abstract IMAGES Visual representation of biological structures in teaching material Marina Azevedo Morato, Miriam Struchiner, Eduardo Bordoni and Regina Maria Vieira Ricciardi text in portuguese SOURCES The ethics of the medical profession and its professionalization (1927-57): A repertory of surces in the constitution of medical association André de Faria Pereira Neto text in portuguese INTERVIEW Haity Moussatché: an homage to the crusader of Brazilian science Arlindo Fábio Gomes, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Paulo Gadelha, Wanda Hamilton text in portuguese RESEARCH NOTE Investimentos privados, bens públicos e qualidade de vida numa frente de mineração tropical: o caso da mina de manganês de Serra do Navio (AP) José Augusto Drummond text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS Meios para aperfeiçoar pedidos de ajuda financeira para estudos no exterior Edward Riedinger text in portuguese A sociedade do espetáculo de Guy Debord • reviewed by Luis Carlos Fridman text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese