Vol. 14 • n. 2 • Apr.-Jun. 2007

EDITOR´S NOTE ANALYSIS Cholera epidemics in Córdoba as seen through the press. The supply of preventive and curative products during the 1867-68 epidemic Adrián Carbonetti and María Laura Rodríguez abstract Origin and destiny revisited: cloning as prophecy and promise Ana Maria Coutinho Aleksandrowicz and Fermin Roland Schramm abstract  Physics of organisms versus hermeneutics of living being: the reach of the reductionist program in contemporary biology Gustavo Caponi abstract  Science and medical education in Brazil (1930-1950) Lúcia Grando Bulcão, Almir Chaiban El-Kareh e Jane Dutra Sayd abstract  Perspective of historical epistemology and health promotion in schools João Batista Vianey Silveira Moura, Lídia Andrade Lourinho, Maria Teresa Moreno Valdês, Mirna Albuquerque Frota and Ana Maria Fontenelle Catrib abstract  Understanding the theories about the rainbow Priscila Faulhaber abstract  Biopolitics in the genealogy of psychoanalysis: from salvation to cure Joel Birman abstract  In defense of psychiatric reform: for the dawn of a new anavoidable future Ilana Lemos de Paiva and Oswaldo H. Yamamoto abstract Strategies for psychiatric reform in Barbacena municipality: cooperation between a public authority and the third sector Lys Teixeira de Alvarenga and Cristiane de Oliveira Novaes  abstract SOURCES “For a history of vaccination in Brazil“: an unpublished manuscript by Norberto and Macedo Myriam Bahia Lopes and Ronald Polito abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS The militia of the Inquisition: members of the Holy Office in colonial Brazil • review by Georgina Silva dos Santos on Agentes da fé: familiares da Inquisição portuguesa no Brasil colonial, by Daniela Buono Calainho text in portuguese Working cultures and treatment practices in modern Lisbon • review by Lígia Bellini on Ofício e sangue: a Irmandade de São Jorge e a Inquisição na Lisboa moderna, by Georgina Silva dos Santos text in portuguese “Good vassal and good Portuguese”: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, a naturalist and public figure • review by Clarete Paranhos da Silva on “Juro-lhe pela honra de bom vassalo e bom português“: análise das memórias científicas de José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1780-1819), by Alex Gonçalves Varela text in portuguese Myth and science – constructions and reconstructions • review by Beatriz Teixeira Weber on Oswaldo Cruz: a construção de um mito na ciência brasileira, by Nara Britto text in portuguese Images, practices and strategies for the implantation of gynecology in Belo Horizonte: the complexities of a process • review by Rachel Soihet on A imagem social do médico de senhoras no século XX, by Rita de Cássia Marques text in portuguese The 1903 strike: origins of the workers’ movement in Rio de Janeiro • review by Carlos Augusto Addor on Malandros desconsolados: o diário da primeira greve geral no Rio de Janeiro, by Francisca Nogueira de Azevedo text in portuguese Revisiting Rondônia: history, memory and science • review by Adriana T.A. Martins Keuller on Rondônia, by E. Roquette-Pinto (reed.) text in portuguese Weighing up SUS as it comes of age • review by Paulo Henrique Rodrigues on Saúde e democracia: histórias e perspectivas do SUS, by Nísia Trindade de Lima, Sílvia Gerschman, Flávio Coelho Edler e Julio Manuel Suárez (org.) text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese