Vol. 12 • n. 2 • May-Aug. 2005

ANALYSIS From psychiatric reform to the struggle for a ‘non-fascist life’ Sergio Alarcon abstract Graduate studies and work: a study on the plans and expectations of Brazilian doctoral candidates Rita de Cássia Ramos Louzada and João Ferreira da Silva Filho abstract  The concept of student health as viewed by early elementary school teachers (1st- 4th grades) Marcos Henrique Fernandes, Vera Maria Rocha and Djanira Brasilino de Souza abstract Notes on an approximation between neo-Darwinism and the social sciences Ricardo Waizbort abstract  DOSSIER: RACE, GENETICS, IDENTITIES, AND HEALTH Reasons for banishing the concept of race from Brazilian medicine Sérgio D. J. Pena abstract  The significance of sickle cell anemia within the context of the Brazilian government’s ‘racial policies’ (1995-2004) Peter H. Fry abstract  Race, genetics, and hypertension: new genetics or old eugenics? Josué Laguardia abstract  Human nature created in the laboratory: the biologization and genetization of kinship in new reproductive technologies Naara Luna abstract  In times of racialization: the case of the ‘health of the black population’ in Brazil Marcos Chor Maio and Simone Monteiro abstract  Anthropology, race, and the dilemmas of identity in the age of genomics Ricardo Ventura Santos and Marcos Chor Maio abstract  DEBATE Science, technology, parliament, and dialoguing with citizen Luisa Massarani text in portuguese Public participation in Science and Technology: influencing decisions and, primarily, keeping society informed and involved Interview with Lars Klüver and Edna F. Einsiedel, by Luisa Massarani e Carla Almeida text in portuguese Democratizing science? Citizen juries and other deliberative methods Tom Shakespeare text in portuguese Consensus conferences: the Chilean experience Alberto Pellegrini Filho text in portuguese The human genome on the streets of Avellaneda Ricardo Ferraro, Adriano J. Bacciadonne, Alberto Díaz text in portuguese SOURCES Chernoviz and popular medical manuals in the days of the Empire Maria Regina Cotrim Guimarães abstract  IMAGES Theodoro Peckolt: the scientific work of a pioneer in phytochemistry in Brazil Nadja Paraense dos Santos abstract  RESEARCH NOTES Giovanni Battista Marini Bettolo: his role in the development of chemistry in Uruguay Bernardo Borkenztain, Amílcar Davyt, Fernando Ferreira and Patrick Moyna abstract  Body image: discovering one’s self Daniela dias Barros abstract  BOOKS & NETWORKS A multi-faceted look across time: hygienism and eugenics in Brazil • reviewed by Bernardo Andrade Marçolla on Higiene e raça como projetos: higienismo e eugenismo no Brasil, de Maria Lúcia Boarini (org.) text in portuguese Chapters in the social history of medicine in Brazil • reviewed by Carlos Eduardo Calaça on Artes e ofícios de curar no Brasil: capítulos de história social, de Sidney Chalhoub et al. (org.) texto em português The sociopolitical dimensions of an epidemic: São Paulo in the mad grip of the Spanish flu • reviewed by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza on A gripe espanhola em São Paulo, 1918: epidemia e sociedade, by Cláudio Bertolli Filho text in portuguese Contradictions and asymmetries in the construction of knowledge about Aids/HIV • reviewed by Maria Cristina da Costa Marques on Ciência, poder, acção: as respostas à Sida, by Cristiana Bastos text in portuguese Abysm or continuities? Polemics surrounding pre-colonial Tupi and the ‘general language’ disseminated by the Jesuits • reviewed by Jânia Martins Ramos e Renato Pinto Venâncio on Línguas gerais: política lingüística na América do Sul no período colonial, by José Ribamar Bessa Freire e Maria Carlota Rosa (org.) text in portuguese New reflections on Aids • reviewed by João Bôsco Hora Góis on A história de uma epidemia moderna: a emergência política da Aids/HIV no Brasil, by Maria Cristina da Costa Marques text in portuguese The Complete Works of Adolpho Lutz: an unprecedented work in review • reviewed by Sandra Caponi sobre Adolpho Lutz: obra completa (1ª caixa, com quatro livros), by Jaime L. Benchimol e Magali Romero Sá (org.) text in spanish