Vol. 20 • n.2 • April-June 2013

EDITOR’S NOTE ANALYSIS A nosology for supernatural phenomena and the construction of the ‘possessed’ brain in the nineteenth century Valéria Portugal Gonçalves, Francisco Ortega text in english Scientific approaches to the Mexican mestizo Carlos López-Beltrán, Vivette García Deister text in english Power and health in South America: international sanitary conferences, 1870-1889 Cleide de Lima Chaves  text in english Medical teaching at the University of Coimbra in the sixteenth century Isilda Teixeira Rodrigues, Carlos Fiolhais abstract Silva Coutinho: his career and his contributions to the geological collections of the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro Marina Jardim e Silva, Antonio Carlos Sequeira Fernandes, Vera Maria Medina da Fonseca abstract Teaching science: realism, anti-realism and the construction of the concept of oxygen Marcos Rodrigues da Silva  abstract Pharmacology in the twentieth century: the science of drugs through the analysis of Goodman and Gilman’s textbook Silvia Cardoso Bittencourt, Sandra Caponi, Sônia Maluf abstract Tuberculosis mortality in Argentina during the twentieth century María Belén Herrero, Adrián Carbonetti abstract Experts in ‘dying well’: causa mortis, rituals, and hierarchies at a monastery in colonial Rio de Janeiro Jorge Victor de Araújo Souza abstract Mental health policies in Santa Catarina in the 1970s: the vanguard of Brazilian psychiatry? Daniela Ribeiro Schneider, Cristiane Budde, Karla Castillo Flores, Rafael Pereira, Eliane Regina Ternes Torres  abstract From the Casa de Orates to the courtroom: psychiatric expertise and legal assessment of madness in Santiago de Chile around 1860 María José Correa Gómez abstract Plants and their use by the people of Northern Cameroon: selection and use in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Jean Gormo, Bienvenu Denis Nizesete abstract The academic dossier of Maria de Lourdes Almeida: history and nursing in post-1930s Brazil Paulo Fernando de Souza Campos abstract The use of coca leaves in traditional communities: perspectives in health, society, and culture Ivan Farias Barreto abstract In pursuit of a healthy fetus: ideas, signs, and things in the reconstruction of the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis Vera Lucia Marques da Silva, Kenneth Rochel Camargo Júnior abstract Science fiction and the Brave New World: predictions fulfilled in our century and bioethical considerations Ana Carolina Clemente dos Santos, Thomaz Pereira de Amorim Neto, Andréa Carla de Souza Góes abstract SOURCES History of genetics in Brazil: a view from the Museu da Genética at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza, Rodrigo Ciconet Dornelles, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Júnior, Ricardo Ventura Santos text in english RESEARCH NOTE Recent trends in scholarship on the history of nursing in Brazil Maria Itayra Padilha, Aline Coelho Ferreira, Isabel Cristina Alves Maliska, Mariana Vieira Villarinho, Gabriela Venier Zytkuewisz, Camilla Sell text in english BOOKS & NETWORKS Health in adversity: a summary of the history of healthcare in Brazil review by Marcos Cueto on Na corda bamba de sombrinha: a saúde no fio da história, by Carlos Fidelis Ponte, Ialê Falleiros (Org.) and Cantos, contos e imagens: puxando mais uns fios nessa história, by José Roberto Franco Rei, Muza Clara Chaves Velasques text in spanish Health and history according to Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos and Lina Faria review by Silvana Maria Pereira, Joana Maria Pedro on Saúde e história, by Luiz Antonio de Castro Santos, Lina Rodrigues de Faria text in portuguese The mobilization of U.S. women during the First World War: struggles for a greater scope of action as an expansion of civil rights review by Luciana Rosar Fornazari Klanovicz on Mobilizing Minerva: American women in the First World War, by Kimberly Jensen text in portuguese Fordlândia, dream and reality: the history of a city and its creator review by Daniela de Oliveira on Fordlândia: ascensão e queda da cidade esquecida de Henry Ford na selva, by Greg Grandin text in portuguese The conquest of physical and intellectual ‘space(s)’ for a new disciplinary area in Argentina review by Elisabete Pereira on El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales: los espacios de la prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850-1910, by Irina Podgorny text in portuguese