Vol. 12 • n. 3 • Sept.-Dec. 2005

ANALYSIS Brazilian physician José Pinto de Azeredo (1766?-1810) and the chemical examination of Rio de Janeiro’s atmosphere Manuel Serrano Pinto, Marco Antonio G. Cecchini, Isabel Maria Malaquias, Lycia Maria Moreira-Nordemann and João Rui Pita abstract  For the good of the nation’s economy: therapeutic work and public assistance at La Castañeda asylum in Mexico City, 1929-32 Cristina Sacristán abstract  Ways of managing madness during the First Republic: the case of the state of Espírito Santo Alexander Jabert  abstract  Ethics and medicine in Michel Foucault: the humanistic dimension of medicine derived from a genealogy of morality Benjamim Gomes  abstract  Ethics and epidemiology Rita Barradas Barata  abstract  Globalization and environmentalism: polyphonic ethnicities in the Amazon Luiza Garnelo and Sully Sampaio  abstract  DOSSIER PESTILENCE AND CURES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURE MEDICINE On two antique medical texts Maria Carlota Rosa  abstract  Regimento proueytoso contra ha pestenença (fac-símile) text in portuguese Regimento proueytoso and Modus curandi: edition of the texts Maria Carlota Rosa , Diana Maul de Carvalho e Dante M. Teixeira  abstract  Semidiplomatic edition: Updated edition Maria Carlota Rosa  text in portuguese Modus curandi cum balsamo (fac-símile) text in portuguese General observations on the treatise Modus curandi cum balsamo Ana Thereza Basílio Vieira and Henrique Cairus  abstract  Semidiplomatic edition Maria Carlota Rosa, Diana Maul de Carvalho and Dante M. Teixeira  text in portuguese Useful regime against the plague (ca. 1496): an introduction Jorge Prata de Sousa and Ricardo da Costa  abstract  Regime for treating the plague and the prescription of balm: some comments from the perspective of ‘modern medicine’ Diana Maul de Carvalho  abstract  Regimento proueytoso contra ha pestenença: glossário Maria Carlota Rosa abstract SOURCES History of the first institutions for the insane in Brazil Ana Maria Galdini Raimundo Oda e Paulo Dalgalarrondo  abstract IMAGES The House of Geraldo de Paula Souza: text and image of a sanitarian from São Paulo Lina Rodrigues de Faria  abstract The heart as symbol Paulo R. Prates  abstract RESEARCH NOTE Armando Magalhães Corrêa: people and nature in an almost metropolitan sertão José Luiz de Andrade Franco e José Augusto Drummond  abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Is “blackness” to “cultural expression” as “ethnicity” is to “political participation”? • reviewed by Fátima Cecchetto on Negritude sem etnicidade: o local e o global nas relações raciais e na produção cultural negra do Brasil, by Lívio Sansone text in portuguese Os Xavánte de Etéñitépa – uma visão interdisciplinar • reviewed by Heloisa Pagliaro on The Xavánte in Transition. Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil, by Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano and Ricardo Ventura Santos text in portugueses Privado e/ou público: querelas sobre a arte de enganar a natureza • reviewed by Jane Felipe Beltrão on A arte de enganar a natureza: contracepção, aborto e infanticídio no início do século XX, by Fabíola Rohden text in portuguese O gênero da antropologia • reviewed by Mariana Françozo on Antropólogas e antropologia, by Mariza Corrêa text in portuguese Popper e o espelho de Darwin 1081 • reviewed by Maurício de Carvalho Ramos on Sociologia do conhecimento. Pragmatismo e pensamento evolutivo, by R. S. Freitas text in portuguese A ciência do diálogo 1087 • reviewed by Carlos Fioravanti on Terra Incógnita: a interface entre ciência e público, by Luisa Massarani, John Turney, Ildeu de Castro Moreira (org.) text in portuguese THESES texto em português