Vol. 8 • n. 1 • Mar.-Jun. 2001

ANALYSIS Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula: gender and science in literature LUCIA DE LA ROCQUE and LUIZ ANTONIO TEIXEIRA  abstract Cathedrals to sciences or temples of knowledge? The museums of natural sciences of Cordoba, Argentina, by the end of the 19th century LUIS TOGNETTI  abstract The biomedical model and the reformulation of the medical curriculum of Universidade Federal Fluminense LILIAN KOIFMAN  abstract Learning from scientific initiation or laboratory pedagogy ROSA MARIA CORRÊA DAS NEVES  abstract Men and women: imagery about sterility in Portuguese America MARY DEL PRIORE  abstract Nina Rodrigues, epidemiologist: historical study of beriberi outbreaks in a mental illness asylum in Bahia, Brasil (1897-1904) RONALDO RIBEIRO JACOBINA, FERNANDO MARTINS CARVALHO abstract Rummors, fear or epidemy? The bubonic plague of 1913-14 in the Atlantic Coast of Colombia JORGE MÁRQUEZ VALDERRAMA  abstract Brazilian medical literature about the white plague: 1870-1940 DALILA DE SOUSA SHEPPARD  abstract IMAGES Get serious about Aids! – humor and health: overviewing the cartoons on the I Bienal Internacional de Humor, 1997 CACO XAVIER  abstract SOURCES Notes for a history of health: document sources of Paraná CYNTHIA RONCAGLIO, MÁRCIA NEUERT, MARIA DA APARECIDA BORGES MARTINS  text in portuguese INTERVIEW Over the cuckoo’s nest: memories of a former president of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz VINÍCIUS DA FONSECA talks to NARA AZEVEDO and WANDA HAMILTON text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS Science in action: following Bruno Latour by BRUNO LATOUR • reviewed by MÁRCIA DE OLIVEIRA TEIXEIRA text in portuguese O parente mais próximo: o que os chimpanzés me ensinaram sobre quem somos  by ROGER FOUTS • reviewed by RICARDO WAIZBORT text in portuguese As artes de curar: medicina, religião, magia e positivismo na República Rio-Grandense – 1889-1928 by BEATRIZ TEIXEIRA WEBER • reviewed by FLÁVIO COELHO EDLER text in portuguese Físicos, mésons e política: a dinâmica da ciência na sociedade  by ANA MARIA RIBEIRO DE ANDRADE • reviewed by SERGIO GIL MARQUES DOS SANTOS text in portuguese O poder e a peste by LIRA NETO • reviewed by NATHACHA REGAZZINI BIANCHI REIS text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese