Vol. 14 • n. 1 • Jan.-Mar. 2007

EDITOR´S NOTE ANALYSIS On acclimatization: Boudin and medical geography Sandra Caponi  abstract Medical geography and the French expeditions to Brazil: a description of the naval station in Brazil and the Prata (1868-1870) Rosa Helena de Santana Girão de Morais abstract ‘Magdalena fevers‘: medicine and society in the construction of a Colombian medical notion, 1859-1886 Claudia Mónica García abstract Parasite ethiology and epistemological obstacles: the case of malaria in Colombia Victoria Estrada Orrego and Jorge Márquez Valderrama abstract Human handicap and self-determination: compassion and insensibility in the Vincent Humbert case Ray Pereira abstract Street social education: historical, political and pedagogical bases Walter Ferreira de Oliveira abstract Merton and medical sociology Everardo Duarte Nunes abstract School museums, collections, and elementary teaching of the natural sciences in late XIX century Argentina Susana V. García abstract  Historical tendencies of diet studies in Brazil Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos abstract História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos: examining 12 years of regular circulation Jaime L. Benchimol, Roberta Cardoso Cerqueira, Ruth B. Martins and Amanda Mendonça text in english Dialogues between Clio and Asclepius: Ivolino de Vasconcellos and the Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina Mauro Amoroso abstract SOURCES Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina, a pioneer in medical historiography Amanda Mendonça and Gabriel Baptista Nicolini abstract The 1755 Lisbon earthquake: collections of eighteenth-century texts Filomena Amador abstract IMAGES From the old headquarters of the Diretoria Geral de Saúde Pública (DGSP) to the Instituto Nacional do Câncer (Inca) Benedito Tadeu de Oliveira  abstract TESTIMONIES The modern chemistry of natural products in Brazil: the origins of the Núcleo de Pesquisas de Produtos Naturais da UFRJ Affonso Prado Seabra and Walter Baptist Mors, with introduction by Lina Faria abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Limits and frontiers of eugenics in the West of the United States • review by Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza on Eugenic nation: faults and frontier of better breeding in modern America, by Alexandra Minna Stern text in portuguese  Studies on the Brazilian Indian Peoples: a demography with a human face • review by María Mercedes Arias Valencia on Demografia dos povos indígenas no Brasil, by Heloisa Pagliaro, Marta Maria Azevedo e Ricardo Ventura Santos (org.) text in spanish On the culture of science history • review by Mauro Lúcio Leitão Condé e Regina Horta Duarte on Jahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur (Yearbook for European Culture of Science), by Mauro Lúcio Leitão Condé e Regina Horta Duarte text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese