Vol. 12 • n. 1 • Jan.-April 2005

ANALYSIS “Gold earrings, calico skirts”: images of women and their role in the project to civilize the Amazon, as observed by Elizabeth Agassiz in Viagem ao Brasil: 1865-1866 Fabiane Vinente dos Santos  abstract  The modern psychiatric institution from an organizational perspective Fábio Vizeu  abstract  Scientific research in the biosciences in São Paulo: beyond institutions Gildo Magalhães dos Santos  abstract  THE SPANISH FLU IN BRAZIL DOSSIER The Spanish flu in Salvador, 1918: city of alleys and tenements Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza  abstract  Revisiting the Spanish flu: the 1918 influenza pandemic in Rio de Janeiro Adriana da Costa Goulart  abstract  Among doctors and for the lay: fragments of the medical discourse during the 1918 flu epidemic Liane Maria Bertucci-Martins  abstract  Danger is in the air: is the Spanish Flu back? Interview with Marilda Mendonça Siqueira by Jaime Larry Benchimol, Roberta Cardoso Cerqueira and Ruth B. Martins text in portuguese IMAGES Social assistance institutions and Jewish immigration Roney Cytrynowicz  abstract  SOURCES Science, politics, and passion: the Carlos Chagas Filho archive Ana Luce Girão Soares de Lima, Cecília Chagas de Mesquita, Francisco dos Santos Lourenço, Leonardo Arruda Gonçalves and Ricardo Augusto dos Santos  abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS Brazil as glimpsed in Gilberto Freyre • reviewed by André Botelho sobre Gilberto Freyre em quatro tempos, de Ethel Volfzon Kosminsky, Claude Lépine and Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (orgs.) text in portuguese Imperialism and philanthropy: the experience of the Rockefeller Foundation and hygienism under Brazil’s First Republic • reviewed by Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva sobre A Reforma Sanitária no Brasil: ecos da Primeira República, by Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos and Lina Rodrigues de Faria text in portuguese The multiple faces of science in Brazil in the 100 years following Origin of Species • reviewed by Renan Springer de Freitas sobre A recepção do darwinismo no Brasil, by Heloisa Maria B. Domingues, Magali R omero S á and Thomas Glick (orgs.) text in portuguese Exploring the interface between Anthropology and Genetics • reviewed bySérgio D. J. Pena sobre Genetic nature/culture: Anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide, byAlan H. Goodman, Debora Heath and M. Susan Lindee (eds.) text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese