Vol. 11 • Supplement • 2004

ANALYSIS The institutionalization of medical knowledge Medical teaching in Portuguese colonial India: the creation and earliest decades of the New Goa Medical-surgical School Cristiana Bastos abstract  Febres paulistas and the São Paulo Society of Medicine and Surgery: a controversy among spokespeople from different arenas of knowledge Luiz Antonio Teixeira abstract  Transformations in curing practices in Rio de Janeiro during the first half of the eighteenth century Tânia Salgado Pimenta abstract  The circulation of knowledge: periodicals, books, and authors Business, politics, science, and visa versa: an institutional history of Brazilian medical journalism between 1827 and 1843 Luiz Otávio Ferreira abstract  Men of science in Brazil: colonial empires and the circulation of information (1780-1810) Lorelai Kury abstract  Books from the Arco do Cego in Colonial Brazil Robert Wegner abstract  Confrontations and disagreements: the case of smallpox Smallpox vaccine: views of the Academy of Medicine in Imperial Brazil Tania Maria Fernandes abstract  The pathways of the vaccine in nineteenth and twentieth-century Portuguese India Mónica Saavedra abstract  Seeds against smallpox: Joaquim Vás and the scientific translation of bananeira brava seeds in Goa, India (1894-1930) Ricardo Roque abstract  Therapeutic practices on the margins of power The role and practices of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society Timothy Walker text in english Thermal knowledge and therapies: a comparative view of Portugal (São Pedro do Sul hot springs) and Brazil (Caldas da Imperatriz hot springs) Maria Manuel Quintela abstract  IMAGES Health and Angola’s Companhia de Diamantes Jorge Varanda abstract