Vol. 17 • n.4 • Oct.-Dec. 2010

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Girolamo Fracastoro and the invention of syphilis Virginia Iommi Echeverría text in english Reading the ‘natural book’: notes towards a history of anatomical and surgical studies in Buenos Aires (1870-1895) Pablo Souza, Diego Hurtado text in english Biomedical colonialism or local autonomy?: local healers in the fight against tuberculosis Antonio Miguel Ortega Martos abstract Anthropology, ethnography, and narrative: intersecting paths in understanding the processes of health and sickness Gabriela M.C. Costa, Dulce M.R. Gualda abstract Isolated ‘like us’ or isolated ‘among us’?: the controversy within the National Academy of Medicine over compulsory isolation of leprosy sufferers Vivian da Silva Cunha text in english Open access to academic scholarship as a public policy resource: a study of the Capes database on Brazilian theses and dissertations Teresa da Silva Rosa, Maria José Carneiro abstract Worker diet in Brazil: a review of Brazilian scholarship on the topic Maria da Purificação Nazaré Araújo, Jamacy Costa-Souza, Leny Alves Bomfim Trad abstract Regionalism, modernity, and intellectual legitimacy: Moysés Vellinho and Érico Veríssimo (1930 to 1964) Mara Cristina de Matos Rodrigues abstract IMAGES One photograph, myriad images: rural education in Northern Brazil Sonia Maria da Silva Araújo abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Man’s odyssey told by other navigators • review by Cassius Schnell Palhano Silva on Paleoparasitologia, by Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Karl Jan Reinhard e Adauto Araújo text in portuguese The imag-ethics of the individual • review by Ceres Víctora on ‘Meio quilo de gente’: um estudo antropológico sobre ultra-som obstétrico,by Lilian K. Chazan text in portuguese Georges Cuvier: natural history in pre-Darwinian times • review by F. Felipe A. Faria on Georges Cuvier: un fisiólogo de museo, by Gustavo Caponi text in portuguese The ecological and civilizational crisis from an anthropological perspective • review by Marco Aurélio Bilibio on People and nature: an introduction to human ecological relations, by Emílio F. Moran text in portuguese A piece of history seen from the inside • review by Iuri Cavlak on La política sanitaria del peronismo, by Karina Ramacciotti text in portuguese