Vol. 11 • n. 3 • Sept.-Dec. 2004

ANALYSIS The spatial dimension in health studies: a historical trajectory Aylene Bousquat e Amélia Cohn  abstract  Medical reform in Brazil and the US: a comparison of two rhetorics Amy Kemp and Flávio Edler  abstract  Cholera and environmental medicine in the manuscript “Cholera-morbus” (1832), by Antonio Correa de Lacerda (1777-1852) Nelson Sanjad  abstract  Plato and medicine Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista and Fermin Roland Schramm  abstract  Death in the center of life: reflections on curing and non-curing in Jesuit-Guarani missions (1609-75) Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck  abstract  São Pedro de Alcântara Charity Hospital: assistance and healthcare in Goiás during the nineteenth century Sônia Maria de Magalhães  abstract  The work of naturalist José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva during his ‘Portuguese phase’ (1780-1819) Alex Gonçalves Varela, Maria Margaret Lopes and Maria Rachel Fróes da Fonseca abstract  Mineralogical aspects of ‘Philosophical Voyages’ through the Brazilian territory during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa, Clarete Paranhos da Silva and Ermelinda Moutinho Pataca abstract  SOURCES Gold under the Lights: the “art” of mining in the discourse of naturalist João da Silva Feijó (1760-1824) Clarete Paranhos da Silva e Maria Margaret Lopes  abstract  IMAGES Pasteur Institute of São Paulo: battling rabies for one hundred years Luiz AntOnio Teixeira, Maria Regina Cardoso Sandoval and Neide Yumie Takaoka  abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS Sun and shadows: social histories of Brazilian tuberculosis • reviewed by Tania Maria Fernandes on História social da tuberculose e do tuberculoso: 1900-1950, by Cláudio Bertolli Filho text in portuguese Cholera: a permanent portrait • reviewed by Claudio Bertolli Filho on Cólera: o flagelo da Belém do Grão-Pará by Jane Felipe Beltrão text in portuguese Some historical, sociological, artistic, and literary aspects of Os sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) • reviewed by José Carlos Barreto de Santana on Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha: releituras e diálogos críticos, by José Leonardo do Nascimento text in portuguese Vagrancy and its bodily imprint • reviewed by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, on Intenção e gesto. Pessoa, cor e a produção cotidiana da (in)diferença no Rio de Janeiro. 1927-1942, by Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha text in portuguese The inauguration of the Escola Paulista de Medicina • reviewed by Lilian Koifman on Estratégias da ciência: a história da Escola Paulista de Medicina (1933-1956), by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva text in portuguese Social policy and racism as challenges for educational historians • reviewed by Marcos Cezar de Freitas, on Diploma of whiteness: race and social policy in Brazil, 1917-1945, by Jerry Dávila text in portuguese Dialogues between genetics, anthropology, and history • reviewed by Ricardo Ventura Santos, on Genes, povos e língua, by Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza text in portuguese Critique of the critique of political thought • reviewed by Robert Wegner, on Idéias em movimento: a geração de 1870 na crise do Brasil-Império, by Angela Alonso text in portuguese