Vol. 16 • n. 1 • Jan./Mar. 2009

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Machines and arguments: from life support technologies to the definition of brain death Luciana Kind abstract Like Moses’ staff: pathological inheritance as an argument for medical vigilance of consanguine marriage in Mexico, 1870-1900 Fabricio González Sorianos text in english Impact of the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 on the general mortality profile in Boyacá, Colombia Juan Manuel Ospina Díaz, Abel Fernando Martínez Martín, Oscar Fernando Herrán Falla abstract Save for eternity: principles of medical science in the age of Montaigne and Cervantes Marcos Antônio Lopes abstract Does jesus have metal-free teeth in a country of the toothless?: dentistry of vanities and desires Adauto Emmerich, Luis David Castiel abstract Mediation practices in epidemiological research from an ethnographic perspective Luís Augusto Vasconcelos da Silva  abstract Methodological proposal for a dual level analysis of qualitative data Milena Pereira Pondé, Milena Siqueira Santos Mendonça, Carlos Caroso abstract Friar José Mariano da Conceição Veloso and the promotion of industrial techniques in colonial Brazil: discussion of some concepts from the chemical sciences Fernando J. Luna abstract Human action in a Genomic Era: debates on human nature Tatiana Gomes Rotondaro text in english Quantity, quality, harmony and adaption: the guiding principles of a society without hunger in Josué de Castro Eronides da Silva Lima text in english  Tradition, memory and archives of ‘brazilianness’: the unconscious in Mário de Andrade Joel Birman abstract IMAGES Comics for citizenship Francisco Caruso, Cristina Silveira abstract RESEARCH NOTES Research in ethnobotany and the return of systematized knowledge to the community: a complex issue Rubia Graciela Patzlaff e Ariane Luna Peixoto abstract Medicine, science and power: relations between France, Germany and Brazil in the period 1919-1942* Magali Romero Sá, Jaime Benchimol, Simone Kropf. Larissa Viana, André Felipe Cândido da Silva text in english  BOOKS AND NETWORKS In the street, the people give voice to the republic • review by Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges on A república consentida: cultura democrática e científica do final do Império, by Maria Tereza Chaves de Mello text in portuguese From a faucet to a history and sociology of the city • review by Jussara Freire on Cidade das águas: usos de rios, córregos, bicas e chafarizes em São Paulo, by Denise Bernuzzi de Sant’Anna text in portuguese