Vol. 14 • n. 3 • July.-Sept. 2007

EDITOR´S NOTE ANALYSIS Child health in Latin America: historiographic perspectives and challenges Anne-Emanuelle Birn abstract Art, medical treatment and insanity: a territory in flux Elizabeth Maria Freire de Araújo Lima and Peter Pál Pelbart  abstract Dr. Voronoff’s curious glandular xeno-implants Ethel Mizrahy Cuperschmid and Tarcisio Passos Ribeiro de Campos abstract The ailing colony and the health of the people: the medicine of the Enlightenment and information about the infirmities in Portugal’s American colonies Jean Luiz Neves Abreu abstract Life in their eyes, heart in their hands: conceptions and representations of women in the process of health and disease Glauce Dias, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini, José Roberto Reis, Roberta Sena Reis, Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista and Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta abstract Fragments of the history of healthcare for users of alcohol and other drugs in Brazil: from Justice to Public Health Ana Regina Machado and Paulo Sérgio Carneiro Miranda abstract The worker and the hysteric: two modern subjects Luciano da Fonseca Elia  abstract The orientalization of the West as a surface of emergence for new paradigms in health Maria Inês Nogueira and Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr. abstract Shen: structuring category in the rationale of Chinese medical Claudia dos Santos Ferreira and Madel Therezinha Luz abstract The origins of the basic healthcare system in Brazil: the District System of Sanitation Administration Carlos Eduardo Aguilera Campos abstract Rites of sacrifice: the survival of an ancient dimension of the human body Andrea Lessa  abstract Social and scientific utopias in late 19th century Brazil Adalmir Leonídio abstract The scientific exploits of the naturalist Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada in São Paulo capitania (1800-1805) Alex Gonçalves Varela and Maria Margaret Lopes abstract SOURCES An unpublished manuscript by naturalist and politician Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada Alex Gonçalves Varela abstract IMAGES Photography as analysis document, body and medicine: theory, method and criticism – the experience of Museo Nacional de Medicina Enrique Laval César Leyton Robinson and Andrés Díaz Caballero abstract Narratives created by images: photography, collective health and the construction of memory in the writing of local history Luís Reznik and Marcelo da Silva Araújo abstract RESEARCH NOTE Physicians and pharmacists in Uberabinha (1890-1920): conflicts and disputes Antônio de Pádua Bosi abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS The dialectics of power in colonies • review by Paulo Cavalcante on O sol e a sombra: política e administração na América portuguesa do século XVIII, by Laura de Mello e Souza text in portuguese On the pace of invention in modern Brazil • review by Ana Maria Mauad¨ on Hello, hello Brazil: popular music in the making of modern Brazil, by Bryan McCan text in portuguese The old-fashioned modernism of Ronald de Carvalho • review by Dominichi Miranda de Sá on O Brasil e os dias: Estado-nação, modernismo e rotina intelectual, by André Botelho text in portuguese The inexact routes of science • review by Letícia Borges Nedel on A ciência como profissão: médicos, bacharéis e cientistas no Brasil (1895-1935), by Dominichi Miranda de Sá text in portuguese The subjects of Momo in the white Republic: chronicles and carnival in the press in Rio de Janeiro • review by Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges on Os cronistas de Momo: imprensa e Carnaval na Primeira República, by Eduardo Granja Coutinho text in portuguese Paroxysms and ambivalences, sociotechnics • review by Caco Xavier on Precariedades do excesso: informação e comunicação em saúde coletiva,by Luis David Castiel and Paulo Roberto Vasconcellos-Silva text in portuguese THESES Spanish flu in Bahia: health, politics and medicine in times of epidemics Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza text in portuguese Anatomy of difference: a theoretical and descriptive investigation into handicaps from an everyday perspective Ray Pereira text in portuguese