Vol. 19 • n.4 • Oct.-Dec. 2012

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Circulation and production of knowledge and scientific practices in southern America in the eighteenth century: an analysis of Materia medica misionera, a manuscript by Pedro Montenegro (1710) Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck, Roberto Poletto text in english The white epidemic and the asepsis of refined earthenware in Belle Époque São Paulo Rafael de Abreu e Souza text in english Petrifying the nation: paleontology collections in Brazil, 1836-1844 Paulo Henrique Martinez text in english Teaching, research, and extension service: botanist Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho Massimo G. Bovini, Ariane Luna Peixoto abstract Alcohol consumption as portrayed in William Hogarth’s prints Beer Street and Gin Lane and in the works of John Wesley: similarities and differences Helmut Renders abstract A history of public health concepts: integrity, coordination, decentralization, regionalization, and universality Guilherme Arantes Mello, Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana abstract Reproduction, sexuality and power: the struggles and disputes over abortion and contraception in Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1930 Marinete dos Santos Silva abstract The sugar cane blight of the 1860s: science applied to agriculture Begonha Bediaga abstract Bacteria or parasite? The controversy over the etiology of sleeping sickness and the Portuguese participation, 1898-1904 Isabel Amaral text in english IMAGES Intersecting images: The Army and the hinterlands in the First Republic Rogério Rosa Rodrigues abstract INTERVIEW A life among insects and books: an interview with Nelson Papavero Interview given Bruna Klassa and Charles Morphy D. Santos abstract RESEARCH NOTE Between the modern and the rustic: the territorialization of preventive medicine in the middle Doce River Patrícia Falco Genovez, Maria Terezinha Bretas Vilarino, José Luiz Cazarotto abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Epidemics as a sociopolitical challenge: the Spanish flu in Bahia review by Mary Ann Mahony on A gripe espanhola na Bahia: saúde, política e medicina em tempos de epidemia, by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza text in portuguese Biopower and eugenics: rethinking the intrusion of power into sexuality in the twentieth century review by Mariana Dovio on Controlar lo incontrolable: una historia de la sexualidad en la Argentina, by Marisa Miranda text in spanish Memory’s manifold voices: from the Paulista School of Medicine to the Federal University of São Paulo, 75 years in 75 interviews review by André Mota, Maria Gabriela S.M.C. Marinho on 75×75: EPM/Unifesp, uma história, 75 vidas, by Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian text in portuguese The price of altruism review by Felipe A. P. L. Costa on The price of altruism: George Price and the search for the origins of kindness, by Oren Harman text in portuguese Black Rome conquers Athens, but not the Brazilian enigma review by Antonio Luigi Negro, Ana Cristina Rocha on Brazil’s living museum: race, reform and tradition in Bahia, by Anadelia Romo text in portuguese LETTER TO THE EDITOR And if obesity is not a disease? The side effects of a critique Murilo Mariano Vilaça, Alexandre Palma text in portuguese