Vol. 3 • n. 2 • july-oct. 1996

ANALYSIS Speed/temporal acceleration and emerging infections: epidemiology and social time Gil Sevalho abstract Living among exposures and ailments: the theory of risk relativity LUIS DAVID CASTIEL abstract Immigration and epidemics in the state of São Paulo RODOLPHO TELAROLLI JUNIOR abstract The debate on experimental medicine under the second reign FLAVIO COELHO EDLER abstract A scientific object interlinking the biological and social sciences: the immune system ANNE MARIE MOULIN abstract SOURCES Brazilian ingenuity at the turn of the 19TH century: the brazilian national archives’ collection industrial privileges MARIA DO CARMO TEIXEIRA RAINHO text in portuguese INTERVIEW The plague in Exu: a narrative by Célio Rodrigues Interview with TANIA FERNANDES and ANTÔNIO TORRES MONTENEGRO text in portuguese DEBATE Technological cooperation and industrial property Antonio Luiz Figueira Barbosa, Eva Stal, Moisés burachik, Murilo Cruz, Claudia Inês Chamas (coord.) text in portuguese BOOKS, ARTICLES & NETWORKS O perfil da ciência brasileira byLeopoldo de Meis e Jaqueline Leta • reviewed byLuiz Otávio Ferreira text in portuguese Quebrando o silêncio: mulheres e Aids no Brasil byRichard Parker e Jane Galvão • reviewed by Andréa Rocha Ferreira text in portuguese Ciência e sociedade na terra dos bandeirantes: a trajetória do Instituto Pasteur de São Paulo no período de 1903 a 1916 byLuiz Antônio Teixeira • reviewed by Maria Amélia M. Dantas text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese