Vol. 11 • n. 2 • May-Aug. 2004

ANALYSIS The prelude to psychiatric reform in Brazil: the contradictions of the 1970s Luiz Fernando Paulin and Egberto Ribeiro Turato abstract  Hunger, solidarity, and ethics: discourse analysis of the movement Citizen’s Action against Hunger and Poverty and for Life Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos abstract  The archeology of human aggressiveness: violence from a paleo-epidemiological perspective Andrea Lessa  abstract  Existential understanding: a pedagogical approach to promoting life Maria Adiléa Farias Lima, Ana Maria Fontenelle Catrib and Luiza Jane Eyre de S. Vieira  abstract  Science as a network of actors: philosophical resonance Marcia Moraes  abstract  In the gap between science and art: a series of illustrations of triatomine bugs from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute Ricardo Lourenço de Oliveira and Roberto Conduru  abstract  SOURCES At the edges of civilization: Some Brazilian stories, by Hercule Florence Francisco Foot Hardman and Lorelai Kury  abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS Things of the Amazon • reviewed byCristina Scheibe Wolff, on Tradições em movimento: uma etnohistória da saúde e da doença nos vales dos rios Acre e Purus, by Fernando Sergio Dumas dos Santos and Mariana de Aguiar Ferreira Muaze text in portuguese The sociology of health in France • reviewed by Miguel Ângelo Montagner and Everardo Duarte Nunes, on Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Médecines, patients et politiques de santé, n° 143, 2002 text in portuguese AIDS, sexuality, and gender in a Rio de Janeiro favela • reviewed by Laura Moutinho, on Qual prevenção? Aids, sexualidade e gênero em uma favela carioca, by Simone Monteiro text in portuguese Towards a history of curing practices • reviewed by Magali Gouveia Engel, on Dizem que foi feitiço: as práticas da cura no sul do Brasil (1845 a 1880), by Nikelen Acosta Witter text in portuguese Humor, science, and politics in Isabelle Stengers • reviewed by Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira on A invenção das ciências modernas, by Isabelle Stengers text in portuguese The arts and crafts of healing in nineteenth-century Minas Gerais • reviewed by Margarida de Souza Neves, on A arte de curar. Cirurgiões, médicos, boticários e curandeiros no século XIX em Minas Gerais, by Betânia Gonçalves Figueiredo text in portuguese Os cadernos de laboratório de Pasteur: uma reflexão sobre o público e o particular nas biografias de cientistas • resenha de Moema de Rezende Vergara, sobre A ciência particular de Louis Pasteur, de Gerald Geison text in portuguese Notebooks from the Pasteur laboratory: some reflections on the public and private in the biographies of scientists • reviewed by Nelson Sanjad, on Hartt: expedições pelo Brasil imperial (1865-1878) e Charles Frederick Hartt, um naturalista no Império de D. Pedro II, on Marcus Vinicius de Freitas text in portuguese THE MIGUEL OSÓRIO DE ALMEIDA DOSSIER Miguel Ozorio de Almeida and the project for a ‘scientific and cultural history of humanity’ Maria Rachel Fróes da Fonseca and Marcos Chor Maio  abstract in english Rapport sur l´histoire scietifique et culturelle de l´humanité Miguel Ozorio de Almeida  text in french Miguel Ozorio de Almeida and the vulgarization of knowledge Luisa Massarani e Ildeu de Castro Moreira  abstract in english THESES text in portuguese