Vol. 20 • n.1 • Jan.-Mar. 2013

EDITOR’S NOTE ANALYSIS The inventory of botanical curiosities in Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s Nouvelle France (1744) Michel Kobelinski text in english A trajectory of British health professionals, 1815-1858 Paula Yuri Sugishita Kanikadan, Maria Cristina da Costa Marques abstract Historical aspects of the institutionalization of adolescent healthcare in the state of São Paulo, 1970-1990 Lígia Bruni Queiroz, José Ricardo de Carvalho Mesquita Ayres, Maria Ignez Saito, André Mota abstract BRAZIL-GERMANY: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RELATIONS DOSSIER ‘Combating’ tropical diseases in the German colonial press Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa  text in english A Brazilian in the Reich of Wilhelm II: Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazil-Germany relations and the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1901-1909 André Felipe Cândido da Silva text in english Unhealthiness, disease, and immigration: German views of Brazil Karen Macknow Lisboa  text in english German doctors in Rio Grande do Sul in the first half of the twentieth century: integration and conflict René E. Gertz abstract The policy of disseminating Germanism through the Bayer periodicals Revista Terapêutica and  O Farmacêutico Brasileiro Marlom Silva Rolim, Magali Romero Sá abstract The Revista Médica project: medical journals as instruments of German foreign cultural policy towards Latin America, 1920-1938 Stefan Wulf text in english The emergence of traditional indigenous medicine in the public policy field Luciane Ouriques Ferreira abstract Rudolf Kraus in search of the “gold of science”: tropical diversity and the development of new treatments, 1913-1923 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti abstract Emil Kraepelin and psychiatric science in Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1933 Cristiana Facchinetti, Pedro Felipe Neves de Muñoz abstract ‘Negative’ eugenics, psychiatry, and Catholicism: clashes over eugenic sterilization in Brazil Robert Wegner, Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza abstract IMAGES The photographic archive of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and Tibor Jablonszky’s view of female labor Vera Lucia Cortes Abrantes abstract RESEARCH NOTE Science, telegraphs, and geography: military engineers in the Rondon Commission, 1907-1915 Patrícia M. Aranha abstract Doctor’s recommendations concerning the education of the problem child: a study of mental hygiene handbooks, 1939-1947 Ana Laura Godinho Lima abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS The American Sociological Association’s Medical Sociology Section turns fifty and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior celebrates review by Everardo Duarte Nunes on Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Washington, v.51, (Suppl.) text in portuguese The first Brazilian scientific voyage: the Imperial Scientific Commission review by Maria Regina Cotrim Guimarães on Comissão Científica do Império, 1859-1861, by Lorelai Kury (Org.) text in portuguese Disease of Chagas, disease of Brazil review by Ivan da Costa Marques on Doença de Chagas, doença do Brasil: ciência, saúde e nação, 1909-1962, by Simone Petraglia Kropf text in portuguese David Bloor’s letter of intentions review by Fabrício Monteiro Neves, Vinícius Teixeira Pinto on Conhecimento e imaginário social, by David Bloor text in portuguese LETTER TO THE EDITOR  Bacteria or parasite? Bacteria is also a parasite Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Adauto Araújo text in portuguese