Vol. 23 • n. 3 • July-Sep. 2016

EDITORS’ NOTE Cueto, Marcos; Silva, André Felipe Cândido da · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS Science and miscegenation in the early twentieth century: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s debates and controversies with US physical anthropology Souza, Vanderlei Sebastião de · abstract in English | Portuguese Basic sanitation policy in Brazil: discussion of a path Sousa, Ana Cristina A. de; Costa, Nilson do Rosário · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese The study of processes of medicalization in Latin America Murguía, Adriana; Ordorika, Teresa; Lendo, León F. · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in English | Spanish Brazilian historiography and the environment: contributions by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and the contemporary environmental history debate Losada, Janaina Zito · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English | Portuguese An eighteenth century travelling theodolite Malaquias, Isabel · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in English Organization of medical specialization in cervical cancer and its control in Brazil: the Instituto de Ginecologia in Rio de Janeiro in the mid-twentieth century Lana, Vanessa · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Negotiating knowledge and power: the National Policy for Comprehensive Men’s Healthcare and the Brazilian Society of Urology Müller, Rita Flores; Birman, Joel · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Disease in the cloisters: requests to leave Convento da Ajuda, Rio de Janeiro, for the treatment of contagious diseases, c.1750-1780 Martins, William de Souza · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese The protagonist microbe: notes on the communication of bacteriology in the Gazeta Médica da Bahia journal, nineteenth century Malaquias, Anderson Gonçalves · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Ceroplastics and forensic medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, 1934-1950 Carreta, Jorge Augusto · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese New documental evidence on the history of homeopathy in Latin America: a case study of links between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires Tarcitano Filho, Conrado Mariano; Waisse, Silvia · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese Maria Bandeira: a pioneering botanist at the Botanic Garden of Rio de Janeiro Bediaga, Begonha; Peixoto, Ariane Luna; Filgueiras, Tarciso S. · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese DOSSIER HUMANITARISM, WAR AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION EN ESPAÑA Humanitarianism, war and technological innovation: the case of the Spanish Red Cross Arrizabalaga, Jon · text in Spanish The Spanish Red Cross, the repatriation of soldiers during the colonial wars and the development of medical science in Spain, 1896-1950 Gallo, María Isabel Porras; Heras-Salord, Jaime de las · abstract in English | Spanish Scientific communication and technological innovation in the first Red Cross, 1863-1876 García-Reyes, Juan Carlos; Arrizabalaga, Jon · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish A state of need: the Spanish Red Cross in Morocco, 1886-1927 Martínez, Francisco Javier · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish SOURCES Technological innovation and humanitarianism in the transport of war wounded: Nicasio Landa’s report on a new elastic suspension system for stretchers (Pamplona, May 29, 1875) Arrizabalaga, Jon; García-Reyes, Juan Carlos · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish INTERVIEW The new history of science: an interview with Dominique Pestre Pestre, Dominique; Romero, Mariza · abstract in English | Portuguese     · text in Portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS The state and health care professions in Argentina: nursing in the nineteenth century Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo · text in Spanish Ideas, practices, and institutions in the field of naval medicine at the beginnings of French tropical medicine Silva, Matheus Alves Duarte da · text in Portuguese United States’ activism in the history of international health care Cueto, Marcos · text in Spanish Manifold interpretations of the western sertão Funes, Eurípedes Antônio · text in Portuguese