Vol. 18 • n.4 • Oct.-Dec. 2011

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS ‘Formidable contagion’: epidemics, work and recruitment in Colonial Amazonia, 1660-1750 Rafael Chambouleyron, Benedito Costa Barbosa, Fernanda Aires Bombardi, Claudia Rocha de Sousa text in english Lazzaro Spallanzani and fossils: from a naturalist’s travel observations to the teaching of natural history Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes, Frederico Felipe de Almeida Faria text in english The scientist as historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the origins of zoology in Brazil Francisco Inácio Bastos, Magali Romero Sá text in english Rotten meat, coffee with corn, and watered-down milk: power struggles and oversight of the food trade in the Imperial Court, 1840-1889 Juliana Teixeira Souza abstract The 1853-1856 cholera epidemic in the Portuguese press Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida abstract Diseases, food, and resistance in the Bahia penitentiary, 1861-1865 Cláudia Moraes Trindade abstract The battle against charlatanism: the institutionalization of scientific medicine in the province of Goiás Sônia Maria de Magalhães abstract The Laboratório de Biologia Infantil, 1935-1941: from forensic medicine to social assistance Renato da Silva abstract Health Centers: science and ideology in the re-organization of public health in the twentieth century Guilherme Arantes Mello, Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana abstract INTERVIEW Translating Fleck: an interview with Georg Otte and Mariana Camilo de Oliveira Given to Miriam Junghans abstract RESEARCH NOTES Sciences and the State: a critical note on some theoretical propositions Jérôme Lamy, Arnaud Saint-Martin abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Ludwik Fleck and the sociocultural analysis of science(s) review by Luciano Marcos Curi and Roberto Carlos dos Santos on Gênese e desenvolvimento de um fato científico, by Ludwik Fleck text in portuguese An interpretative key for Fleck in research review by Carlos Alvarez Maia on Gênese e desenvolvimento de um fato científico, by Ludwik Fleck Challenges in access to medicine and its proper use text in portuguese Challenges in access to medicine and its proper use review by Nuria Homedes on Os fármacos na atualidade: antigos e novos desafios, by José Augusto Cabral de Barros text in spanish A guide for the researcher of the history and memory of health in Rio Grande do Sul review by Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian on Instituições de saúde de Porto Alegre: inventário, by Beatriz Teixeira Weber and Juliane C. Primon Serres text in portuguese Investigating the force: a quantitative and qualitative study of the Rio de Janeiro State Military Police Force review by Rodrigo Monteiro on Missão prevenir e proteger: condições de vida, trabalho e saúde dos policiais militares do Rio de Janeiro, by Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Edinilsa Ramos de Souza and Patrícia Constantino text in portuguese