Vol. 16 • v.3 • July-September 2009

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Fatigue and its disturbances: conditions of possibility and the rise and fall of twentieth-century neurastheni Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli text in english Elements for a history of neuroascese Francisco Ortega abstract Machado de Assis and psychiatry: a chapter in the relations between art and clinical practice in Brazil Elizabeth Maria Freire de Araújo Lima text in english Physical therapy education in Brazil: reflections on the expansion of teaching and training models José Patrício Bispo Júnior abstract Transgenic products: a scientific-production evaluation of possible food (in)security Maria Clara Coelho Camara, Carmem L.C. Marinho, Maria Cristina Rodrigues Guilam, Rubens Onofre Nodari abstract The misery of degeneration: Buffon’s materialism and the ‘limitations’ of his transformism Gustavo Caponi abstract Women’s rights in Brazil: focus on maternal health Ana Cristina da Nóbrega Marinho Torres Leite, Neir Antunes Paes abstract Differently abled: difference and the historical model of the standard man Ray Pereira abstract Why do efforts toward theoretical synthesis prove so successful in biology but not in sociology? Renan Springer de Freitas, Adriana Maria de Figueiredo abstract Knowledge production and the quest for applicability: the experience of universities and the chemical industry Georg M.L. Weinberg, Marcelino José Jorge, Marina Figueiras Jorge abstract SOURCES The National Museum’s physical anthropology archive: sources on the history of eugenics in Brazil Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Mônica Costa S. Coelho, Ozana Hannesch, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho  text in english RESEARCH NOTES Carlos Chagas Filho Virtual Library: a space for disseminating contemporary Brazilian science Francisco dos Santos Lourenço, Daniela Passos, Marcus Teixeira Mendonça, Thiago Werneck Gonçalves, Darcy Fontoura de Almeida abstract “The Pyrenees are not hollow”: the mountain as a boundary object Jérôme Lamy  text in english BOOKS & NETWORKS Literature, sex, and diseases: new narratives on the British Empire • review by Cláudio DeNipoti, on Torrid zones: maternity, sexuality, and empire in eighteenth century English narratives, by Felicity A. Nussbaum, and Romanticism and colonial disease, by Alan Bewell text in portuguese Between bones and scientists: an exploration of American pre-history • review by Ricardo Ventura Santos and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, on O povo de Luzia: em busca dos primeiros americanos, by Waler Alves Neves e Luís Beethoven Piló text in portuguese Healthcare policy in Brazil on the path of history • review by Ialê Falleiros, on Público e privado na política de assistência à saúde no Brasil: atores, processos e trajetória, by Telma Maria Gonçalves Menicucci text in portuguese Invention of hysteria • review by Rafael Alves Pinto Junior, on La invención de la histeria: Charcot y la iconografia fotográfica de La Salpêtrière, by Georges Didi-Huberman text in portuguese Towards a theoretical and methodological renewal of history: old proposals for a new history • review by Claudio Umpierre Carlan, on A história repensada, by Keith Jenkins text in portuguese Yes, we have Pasteur • review by André Felipe Cândido da Silva, on Yes, nós temos Pasteur: Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz e a história da ciência no Brasil, by Henrique Cukierman text in portuguese