Vol. 17 • n.3 • July-Sept. 2010

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Pain beyond the confines of man: a preliminary introduction to the debate between Frances Power Cobbe and the darwinists with respect to vivisection in Victorian England (1863-1904) André Luis de Lima Carvalho, Ricardo Waizbort  text in english Considerations on the concepts of nature, space, and morphology in Alexander von Humboldt and on the genesis of modern physical geography Antonio Carlos Vitte, Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da Silveira abstract Postmodern antinomies on nature José Marcos Froehlich, Celso Reni Braidades abstract Discourses on the body, the ‘human motor’, energy and fatigue: cultural hybridations in fin-de-siècle Argentina Diego P. Roldán text in english The role of the Faculty of Medicine in the process of academic modernization and professionalization at the University of Buenos Aires, 1955-1958: issues in debate and points of convergence Lucía Romero abstract The Bureau of Longitudes and the founding of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina (1882-1890) Marina Rieznik abstract Euclides da Cunha in the Amazon: historical discontinuities in how the forest is seen and narrated Leandro Belinaso Guimarães abstract The Boletim Médico: the tuberculosis specialists’ prescription for curing the city of São José dos Campos (1930-1935) Valéria Zanetti, Maria Aparecida Papali, Maria José Acedo del Olmo, Paula V. Carnevale Vianna abstract Clinical and experimental research in nineteenth-century Brazil: the circulation and control of knowledge in medical helminthology Flavio Coelho Edler text in english DOSSIER SMALLPOX Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson Gilberto Hochman, Steven Palmer text in english Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil Steven Palmer, Gilberto Hochman, Danieli Arbex text in english IMAGES Twentieth-century Penelopes: popular culture revisited Cleci Eulalia Favaro abstract SOURCES Museums and their archives: in search of sources for researching audiences Luciana Sepúlveda Köptcke, Marcele Regina Nogueira Pereira abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS In search of a sanitary village: tuberculosis, health, and culture in Argentina since the late nineteenth century • by Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos and Lina Faria on La ciudad impura: salud, tuberculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950, by Diego Armus text in portuguese An Argentinean public health utopia • review by Beatriz Teixeira Weber on Higienismo argentino: historia de una utopía – la salud en el imaginário colectivo de una época, by Alejandro Kohl text in portuguese The history of science from the historian’s perspective • review by Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira on Ciência, história e historiografia, by Martha Almeida and Moema de Rezende Vergara text in portuguese Natural history museums as a space for constructing knowledge • review by Marcio Rangel on El desierto en una vitrina: museos e historia natural en la Argentina, 1810-1890, by Irina Podgorny and Maria Margaret Lopes text in portuguese Roosevelt and Rondon unveil a river in the Amazon • review by José Augusto Drummond on River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s darkest journey, by Candice Millard text in portuguese Children’s parks at São Paulo: childhood, education and health in the modernist project • review by Janice Gonçalves on Mário de Andrade: o precursor dos parques infantis em São Paulo, by Ana Cristina Arantes text in portuguese