Vol. 18 • Supplement 1 • December 2011

GUEST EDITORS’ NOTE ANALYSIS Gender and assistance: historical and conceptual considerations regarding assistance practices and policies Ana Paula Vosne Martins text in english From the agricultural colony to the hospital-colony: configurations for psychiatric care in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century Ana Teresa A. Venancio text in english Notes on hospital architecture in Brazil: between the traditional and the modern Renato Gama-Rosa Costa abstract Men of the sugarcane fields and their hospitals: the architecture of health under the Estado Novo Marcia Rocha Monteiro abstract The health education of folk midwives: the Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública and mother-child assistance (1940-1960) Tânia Maria de Almeida Silva, Luiz Otávio Ferreira text in english Without pain you will bring forth children: medical power, gender, and politics in new forms of assisted childbirth in Argentina (1960-1980) Karina Felitti abstract Mothers, children, and the policies of Chile’s Servicio Nacional de Salud (1952-1964) María Soledad Zárate Campos, Lorena Godoy Catalán abstract Maternity protection for working women in Argentina: legal and administrative aspects in the first half of the twentieth century Carolina Biernat, Karina Ramacciotti text in english Poverty and assistance in Rio de Janeiro under the First Republic Cláudia Maria Ribeiro Viscardi abstract Scientific charity: Moncorvo Filho and the Instituto de Proteção e Assistência à Infância of Rio de Janeiro (1899-1930) Maria Martha de Luna Freire, Vinícius da Silva Leony abstract Healthcare professions: a critical analysis of care Lina Faria, Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos abstract Biographies as a possible path in the construction of a professional identity in the field of nursing Maria Itayra Padilha, Sioban Nelson, Miriam Susskind Borenstein abstract Philanthropy, government, and the fight against leprosy (1920-1945) Vicente Saul Moreira dos Santos  abstract IMAGES Training and providing assistance: images of Curitiba’s Senai school in the 1940s and 1950s Vera Regina Beltrão Marques, Desirê Luciane Dominschek abstract SOURCES Pro Matre: an archive and sources on the history of motherhood in Rio de Janeiro Maria Renilda Nery Barreto abstract RESEARCH NOTES French lines in Recife architecture: Pedro II Hospital Geraldo Pereira abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS State, civil society, and health policies in Europe (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) review by Cristina M.O. Fonseca on Health institutions at the origin of the welfare systems in Europe, by Pilar León Sanz text in portuguese The promotion of women in social space as an effect of the regulation of motherhood and childhood review by Ana Laura Godinho Lima on Mulheres, mães e médicos: discurso maternalista no Brasil, by Maria Martha de Luna Freire text in portuguese Reconstructing motherhood: pediatric and obstetric discourse in women’s magazines in the 1920s review by Ismael Gonçalves Alves on Mulheres, mães e médicos: discurso maternalista no Brasil, by Maria Martha de Luna Freire text in portuguese From the dream of social ascent to the life of a laborer: shop clerks in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries review by Gisele Sanglard on Proletários de casaca: trabalhadores do comércio carioca (1850-1911), by Fabiane Popinigis text in portuguese