Vol. 10 • n. 2 • May-Aug. 2003

ANALYSIS Swamps, men and crabs in Josué de Castro: meanings and their unfolding DJALMA AGRIPINO DE MELO FILHO  abstract  The institutionalization of epidemiology as a subject at Rio de Janeiro Federal University Medical School CARLOS HENRIQUE DUARTE ALVES TORRES and DINA CZERESNIA abstract  Lobotomy and leucotomy in Brazilian mental hospitals ANDRÉ LUIS MASIERO  abstract  Science and racism: a critical look on Raça e assimilação in Oliveira Vianna JAIR DE SOUZA RAMOS  abstract  Nutritional education: from ignorance to social representations in post-graduation by Rio de Janeiro (1980-98) ERONIDES DA SILVA LIMA, CELINA SZUCHMACHER OLIVEIRA and MARIA DO CARMO REBELLO GOMES  abstract  A post-normal scientific look at aphthous fever as an epizootic disease GABRIEL EDUARDO SCHÜTZ and CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS  abstract  Brazilian mini-computers in the 1970’s: a democratic market reserve during the authoritarian dictatorship IVAN DA COSTA MARQUES  abstract  IMAGES “The living are always, and more and more, governed by the dead”: study on the inequalities in dying STELA N. MENEGHEL, CLAÍDES ABBEG and RONALDO BASTOS  abstract  SOURCES Marie Rennotte, educator and medical doctor: elements for a historical and biographical, social and medical study LEONORA DE LUCA and JOÃO BOSCO ASSIS DE LUCA  abstract  RESEARCH NOTE Playing with space: a proposal for SUS Technical Health Schools LUISA REGINA PESSOA abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS A race or a duel? • reviewed by GUILHERME JOSÉ DA SILVA E SÁ on Decifrando o genoma: a corrida para desvendar o DNA humano byKEVIN DAVIES text in portuguese Washing up Rio • reviewed by JEANNE MARIE GAGNEBIN on O Rio em movimento — quadros médicos e(m) história: 1890-1920 by MYRIAM BAHIA LOPES text in portuguese Scientists’ discourse • reviewed by JOSIMAR JORGE VENTURA DE MORAIS on A ciência: Deus ou diabo? by GUITTA PESSIS-PASTERNACK text in portuguese The Empire and its scientific practices • resenha de MARCUS VINICIUS DE FREITAS sobre Ciência, civilização e império nos trópicos de ALDA HEIZER text in portuguese Viruses, sciences and men • reviewed by LUIZ ANTONIO TEIXEIRA on Gripe, a história da pandemia de 1918 by GINA KOLATA text in portuguese A study on mineral production by scientist José Vieira Couto at Capitania de Minas Gerais at the beginning of the 19th century • reviewed by ALEX GONÇALVES VARELA on O desvendar do grande livro da natureza: um estudo da obra do mineralogista José Vieira Couto, 1798-1805 by CLARETE PARANHOS DA SILVA text in portuguese Changing travelers’ directions • reviewed by MARIA MARGARET LOPES on Histoire naturelle et voyages scientifiques (1780-1830) by LORELAI B. KURY text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese