Vol. 21 • n. 4 • Oct.-Dec. 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS The discourse of sexual excess as a hallmark of Brazilianness: revisiting Brazilian social thinking in the 1920s and 1930s Oliveira, Cristiane · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese On slaves and genes: “origins” and “processes” in genetic studies of the Brazilian population Calvo-González, Elena · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese The body of the nation: government positions on physical education during the Brazilian monarchy Melo, Victor Andrade de; Peres, Fabio de Faria · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Irritable heart syndrome in Anglo-American medical thought at the end of the nineteenth century Vilarinho, Yuri C. · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Boys in white: a classic of qualitative research turns 50 Nunes, Everardo Duarte; Barros, Nelson Filice de · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese Another Dante’s inferno in a gold mine during the Vargas era: Nova Lima, Minas Gerais Maia, Andréa Casa Nova · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Notes on the Chain of Being and the place of blacks in eighteenth-century European natural philosophy Santos, Christian Fausto Moraes dos; Campos, Rafael Dias da Silva · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Minas Gerais Radium Institute: at the forefront of radiotherapy in Brazil, 1923-1935 Cuperschmid, Ethel Mizrahy; Martins, Maria do Carmo Salazar · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Federal university hospitals and their institutional missions in the past and present Araújo, Kizi Mendonça de; Leta, Jacqueline · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Between the country and the laboratory: the dynamics of the production of knowledge at the Menopause Outpatients Clinic at Caism, Unicamp Feltrin, Rebeca Buzzo; Velho, Lea Maria Leme Strini · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Anatomy and the teaching of anatomy in Brazil: the Boverian school Talamoni, Ana Carolina Biscalquini; Bertolli Filho, Claudio · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The motives for hospitalization at Adauto Botelho Hospital (Cariacica, ES) in the second half of the twentieth century Carrion, Carla Torres Pereira; Margotto, Lilian Rose; Aragão, Elizabeth Maria Andrade · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Geography, health and urban development in São Paulo state at the turn of the twentieth century: Domingos Jaguaribe and the construction of the Climate Resort of Campos do Jordão Vianna, Paula V. Carnevale; Zanetti, Valéria; Papali, Maria Aparecida · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Anti-aging medicine: notes on a socio-technical controversy Leitão, Antônio Nogueira; Pedro, Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The socialization of medicine in the era of São Paulo Governor Adhemar de Barros Almeida, Fabio de Oliveira · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Obsessions before Freud: history and clinical practice Huertas, Rafael · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish Caring for the health of your neighbor: the work of anthropologist Charles Wagley with the Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública Figueiredo, Regina Érika Domingos de · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname Hoefte, Rosemarijn · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English SOURCES Looking beyond the campaign to eradicate ancylostomiasis: the diary of the American physician Alan Gregg Korndörfer, Ana Paula · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese RESEARCH NOTES The social context of the birth control debate in Colombia in the 1960s and 1970s: politics, medicine and society Chávez, Ana María Medina · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish INTERVIEW Decriminalizing traditional Andean medicine: an interview with Walter Álvarez Quispe Quispe, Walter Álvarez; Loza, Carmen Beatriz · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish BOOKS & NETWORKS Between centers and peripheries: science, nation and region in the state of Amazonas Cavalcanti, Juliana Manzoni · text in Portuguese The imperial territory in question Oliveira, Gabriel Pereira de · text in Portuguese When the past interpellates Sena, Angélica De · text in Spanish The politics of the body: Didier Fassin’s critical approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa Spesny, Sara Leon · text in Spanish