Vol. 11 • n. 1 • Jan.-Apr. 2004

ANALYSIS Thomas Lindley: a traveler tells of disease and how it was handled in the early nineteenth century Alarcon Agra do Ó  abstract  “In all homes, the moral comfort of science and of art”: the Revista Nacional de Educação and scientific dissemination in Brazil (1932-34) Regina Horta Duarte  abstract  Medical theories and urban management: Fortaleza’s 1877-79 drought Maria Clélia Lustosa Costa  abstract  The History of the Psychiatry not told by Foucault Fernando Ferreira Pinto de Freitas  abstract  Surgical classes in the middle of South America (1808-16) Nauk Maria de Jesus  abstract  IMAGES Directions in Hospital Assistance in Rio de Janeiro (1923-31) Gisele Sanglard and Renato da Gama-Rosa Costa abstract  INTERVIEW The past revisited: the Institute of Malariology and the Institute of Rural Endemics Ernest Paulini  text in portuguese RESEARCH NOTE The Social Sciences among biologists and vaccines: the hardships of study in a laboratory Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira  abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS Beyond good and evil • reviewed by Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, on A irresponsabilidade médica, de Philippe Meyer, e Contra a desumanização da medicina: crítica sociológica das práticas médicas modernas, by Paulo Henrique Martins text in portuguese Evolution and culture • reviewed by José Augusto Drummond, on Human natures — genes, cultures and the human prospect, by Paul Ehrlich text in portuguese The directions and misdirections of Brazilian thought • reviewed by Isabel Lustosa, on Roteiro bibliogáfico do pensamento político-social brasileiro (1870-1965), by Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos text in portuguese The Social Construction of an Illness: the case of leprosy in Colombia • reviewed by Laurinda Rosa Maciel, by Batallas contra la lepra: Estado, medicina y ciencia en Colombia, by Diana Obregón Torres text in portuguese The dream-reality of the Portuguese colonial empire • reviewed by Lúcia Lippi Oliveira, on Ecos do Atlântico Sul, by Omar Ribeiro Thomaz text in portuguese In search of Brazilian health • reviewed by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva, on Caminhos da saúde pública no Brasil, by Jacobo Finkelman (org.) text in portuguese The museum: a unique actor in the construction of the scientific field and of nationality in nineteenth-century Brazil • reviewed by Luciana Sepúlveda Köptcke, on O Ipiranga apropriado: ciência, política e poder, o Museu Paulista 1893-1922, byAna Maria Alencar Alves text in portuguese Public access (non-fee) internet resources for the portuguese language Edward A. Riedinger text in english THESES text in portuguese