ANALYSIS Eradication of poliomyelitis in Brazil: the contribution of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz HERMANN G. SCHATZMAYR; ANA MARIA BISPO DE FILIPPIS; FABIAN FRIEDRICH; MARIA DA LUZ FERNANDES LEAL abstract  Psychiatry reform in Brazil from the 1980’s to present days: its history and concepts FERNANDO TENÓRIO  abstract  Old age, normality versus...

ANALYSIS  Public Health facilities, international modernization and cooperation: Venezuela’s National Nursing School Project, 1936 – 1950 HEBE M. C. VESSURI  abstract Medical Schools in São Paulo and the creation of Escola Paulista de Medicina MÁRCIA REGINA BARROS DA SILVA  abstract Contribution of post-normal science to public health and the...

ANALYSIS  Starvation, eugenics and the development of nutrition in Pernambuco according to Gilberto Freire’s, Josué de Castro’s and Nelson Chaves’ analyses FRANCISCO DE ASSIS GUEDES DE VASCONCELOS  abstract Epidemic constitution: old and new theories and practices in epidemiology DINA CZERESNIA  abstract Santa Tereza windows: a study of...

ANALYSIS Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula: gender and science in literature LUCIA DE LA ROCQUE and LUIZ ANTONIO TEIXEIRA  abstract Cathedrals to sciences or temples of knowledge? The museums of natural sciences of Cordoba, Argentina, by the end of the 19th century LUIS TOGNETTI  abstract The biomedical model and the...

ANALYSIS Travels and science in Brazil DAVID MARCUS KNIGHT  abstract For a better understanding of colonial domains: the creation of an information net during the Portuguese Empire at the end of the eighteenth century ÂNGELA DOMINGUES  abstract Analogies et contrastes entre l’expédition d’Egypte et le voyage d’Humboldt et...

ANALYSIS Preserved Stegomyia and vinegared microbes: Brazil’s triumph in Berlin HENRIQUE LUIZ CUKIERMAN  abstract Life in Manguinhos: the career trajectory of a group of scientists at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz CARLOS EDUARDO CALAÇA  abstract Public health and chemical-pharmaceutical companies MARIA ALICE ROSA RIBEIRO  abstract Scientific diffusion...

ANALYSIS  Poison and the mosquito: epistemological aspects of the etiology and prophylactics of yellow fever SANDRA CAPONI  abstract Gilberto Freyre, environmental history and ‘rurbanization’ JOSÉ MARCOS FROEHLICH  abstract Tuberculosis throughout the times HELEN GONÇALVES  abstract The construction of the “sick-subject” in RSI MARILENE...

ANALYSIS Pharmaceutical patents and the accessibility of drugs in Brazil Marília Bernardes Marques abstract Politics and social medicine in Chile: narratives concerning a difficult relationship Maria Eliana Labra abstract Is allastrim small pox? Luiz Antonio Teixeira abstract Serving the fatherland: the mobilization of Brazilian nurses during World War...

ANALYSIS Private investments, environmental impact, and the quality of life at a mining venture in the Amazon: the case of the Serra do Navio manganese mine in Amapá José Augusto Drummond abstract  Biosphere, history, and conjuncture in an analysis of the main Amazon issues José Augusto Pádua abstract Involuntary voyagers: Portuguese banished to colonial...

ANALYSIS Tuberculosis in Argentinean literature: three examples in novels, short stories, and poetry Adrián Carlos Alfredo Carbonetti abstract The anthropology of disease and of the diseased: perceptions and life strategies adopted by tuberculosis patients Claudio Bertolli Filho abstract The entire life that might have been but was not: the story of a poet...