V. 18 • n.2 • April-June 2011

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Homeopathic strategies: the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1940s and 1950s Beatriz Teixeira Weber abstract Disfiguring disease, degeneration and climate in Colombia, 1880-1920 Hilderman Cardona Rodas, María Fernanda Vásquez Valencia  text in english Medical supervision of sports by the São Paulo State Department of Physical Education: relations between sports and medicine in the 1930s and 1940s Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, André Dalben  abstract Molding soldiers, forming citizens: Doctor Eduardo Augusto Pereira de Abreu, the Paraguayan War, and physical education in Brazil Carlos Leonardo Bahiense da Silva, Victor Andrade de Melo abstract The creation of chairs in tropical medicine in Peru and Brazil Marta de Almeida abstract MALARIA DOSSIER  Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, Marcos Chor Maio text in english Chloroquine resistance and the search for antimalarial drugs from the 1960s to 1980s Ivone Manzali de Sá abstract Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War: the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease Gabriel Gachelin, Annick Opinel text in english Fear of the sertão: malaria and the Rondon Commission (1907-1915) Arthur Torres Caser, Dominichi Miranda de Sá text in english Studies of avian malaria and Brazil in the international scientific context (1907-1945) Magali Romero Sá text in english A method called Pinotti: medicated salt, malaria, and international health (1952-1960)) Renato da Silva, Gilberto Hochman abstract SOURCES The Rondon Commission, diseases, and politics: “Região do Madeira: Santo Antônio,” by Joaquim Augusto Tanajura – another view of the Alto Madeira in 1911 André Vasques Vital abstract INTERVIEW Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig text in english Health, colonialism, and development: an interview with historian Randall Packard Gilberto Hochman, Jaime Benchimol, Magali Romero Sá text in english BOOKS & NETWORKS Knowing the origins of the Brazilian psychiatric reform: the French and Italian experiences • review by Silvio Yasui on Reforma psiquiátrica: as experiências francesa e italiana, by Izabel C. Friche Passos text in portuguese The Republic and scientific practices • review by Libânia Xavier on Ciência, civilização e República nos trópicos, by Alda Heizer and Antonio Augusto Passos Videira text in portuguese Roquette-Pinto and well-tempered Positivism • review by Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti on Antropologia brasiliana: ciência e educação na obra de Edgard Roquette-Pinto, by Nísia Trindade Lima and Dominichi Miranda de Sá text in portuguese