Vol. 19 • n.1 • Jan.-Mar. 2012

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS The weight of pathological: bio-politics and bare life Cristiane Marques Seixas, Joel Birman text in english The objectives of the U.S. Exploring Expedition’s circumnavigation (1838-1842): longitude, nautical charting and the establishment of modern geographic coordinates* Mary Anne Junqueira text in english Stem cell research: a case study on the dynamics of one segment of a scientific field Naara Luna abstract From miasmas to mosquitoes: medical thought on yellow fever in Yucatan, 1890-1920 Carlos Alcalá Ferráez abstrract Counting to cure: statistics and the medical community in Argentina, 1880-1940 Claudia Daniel abstract Colombian initiatives in the Social Appropriation of Science and Technology: tendencies and challenges for a broader understanding of these dynamics Tania Pérez-Bustos, Manuel Franco Avellaneda, Marcela Lozano Borda, Sigrid Falla, Diana Papagayo text in english The formation of the field of psychiatry: two opposing perspectives Jairo Roberto de Almeida Gama abstract Eating education and the making of strong, robust, productive workers: an analysis of scientific scholarship on nutrition in Brazil, 1934-1941 José Arimatea Barros Bezerra abstract On the autonomy of the mouth: curricular practices, professional identity, and the emergence of dental teaching in Brazil Cristine Maria Warmling, Norma Regina Marzola, Carlos Botazzo abstract “Is a shot alone enough?”: concepts of health, hygiene, and nutrition and the Program to Eradicate Yaws in Brazil, 1956-1961 Érico Silva Muniz abstract Family health through the lens of mental hygiene Renata Heller de Moura; Maria Lucia Boarini abstract “Pregnant belly showing”: the vicissitudes and valorization of the reproductive body in the construction of images of pregnancy Eliane Portes Vargas abstract DOSSIER ARCHIVES The utopian Darcy Ribeiro archive Luciana Quillet Heymann text in english Photographs in archives: the production and meaning of visual records Aline Lopes de Lacerda text in english An archival approach: the documents of a biomedical sciences laboratory Paulo Roberto Elian dos Santos text in english IMAGENS A look through the Mexican Department of Health’s film archive María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Reversal of crime: hostile norms, a cruel society, and subjective escape through violence review by Marília Etienne Arreguy on A história de Pierina: subjetividade, crime e loucura, by Yonissa Marmitt Wadi text in portuguese Sanitation versus environment: engineering and politics at the end of the Empire and under the First Republic review by Pedro Eduardo Mesquita de Monteiro Marinho on Meio ambiente, saneamento e engenharia no Império e na Primeira República, by Simone Fadel text in portuguese Theory, critical analysis, and the challenge of interdisciplinary thought at the crossroads of collective health, the environment, and geography review by Lúcia Cony Faria Cidade on Território, ambiente e saúde, by Ary Carvalho de Miranda et al. (Org.) text in portuguese