Vol. 6 • n. 2 • July-Oct. 1999

ANALYSIS McClung and gender determination: from wrong to right Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins abstract Bodies scorned: when medicine and caricature meet Myriam Bahia Lopes abstract Bleeders and surgeons: medical practitioners in nineteenth century Minas Gerais Betânia Gonçalves Figueiredo abstract Resignifying hygienic concepts: the establishment of a sanitation authority in Buenos Aires in the 1880s Adriana Alvarez abstract History of the discovery of Biomphalaria occidentalis Paraense, 1981 Laïs Clark Lima abstract Medical periodicals and the invention of a sanitary agenda for Brazil (1827-43) Luiz Otávio Ferreira abstract Post-modernity: society of images, and society of knowledge Luis Carlos Fridman abstract IMAGES Biodiscovery hall: an interactive biology exhibit Carla Gruzman Gabriel, Luiz Antonio Teixeira text in portuguese SOURCES Nature of man Corpus hippocraticum Henrique Cairus text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS Pontos e bordados – escritos de história e política by José Murilo de Carvalho • reviewed by Isabel Lustosa text in portuguese Preconceito de marca: as relações raciais em Itapetininga by ORACY NOGUEIRA • resenha de Carlos Eduardo Calaça text in portuguese Doença, sofrimento, perturbação: perspectivas etnográficas by Luiz Fernando Duarte and Ondina Fachel Leal (orgs.) • reviewed by Eliane Portes Vargas text in portuguese Crime e loucura: o aparecimento do manicômio judiciário na passagem do século by Sérgio Carrara • reviewed by Laurinda Rosa Maciel text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese