Vol. 9 • n. 1 • Jan.-April 2002

ANALYSIS Eradication of poliomyelitis in Brazil: the contribution of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz HERMANN G. SCHATZMAYR; ANA MARIA BISPO DE FILIPPIS; FABIAN FRIEDRICH; MARIA DA LUZ FERNANDES LEAL abstract  Psychiatry reform in Brazil from the 1980’s to present days: its history and concepts FERNANDO TENÓRIO  abstract  Old age, normality versus pathology DANIEL GROISMAN  abstract  On the way to paradise: Galdino do Valle Filho and the bourgeois prsoject in Nova Friburgo at the beginning of Brazilian republic RICARDO DA GAMA-ROSA COSTA abstract  History of places: a teaching and a research method for secondary schools JOAQUIM JUSTINO MOURA DOS SANTOS  abstract  The policy and politics of alternative food programs in Brazil LEA VELHO; PAULO VELHO  abstract  Instituto Oswaldo Cruz scientific publication from 1900 to 1917, an exploratory study WANDA LATMANN WELTMAN  abstract  IMAGES The history of Biblioteca de Manguinhos and its rare collections MARIA ÉLIDE BORTOLETTO; MARILENE ANTUNES SANT’ANNA  abstract  INTERVIEW Medicine in the past: the history and the historian’s profession. Interview with Roy Porter MARCOS CUETO text in spanish BOOKS & NETWORKS For a new history of yellow fever and the yellow fever vaccine in Brazil • reviewed by CLAUDIO BERTOLLI FILHO on Febre amarela: a doença e a vacina, uma história inacabada edited by JAIME LARRY BENCHIMOL text in portuguese Medicines and medical plants in the tropics: on the development of Western science of pharmacy • reviewed by CARLOS EDUARDO CALAÇA on Natureza em Boiões: medicinas e boticários no Brasil setecentista by VERA REGINA BELTRÃO MARQUES text in portuguese Focusing on jungle women • reviewed by MARIANA DE AGUIAR FERREIRA MUAZE on Mulheres da floresta: uma história Alto Juruá, Acre (1890-1945) by CRISTINA SCHEIBE WOLFF text in portuguese The different paths of science in Argentina and Brazil • reviewed by SILVIA FIGUEIROA on Vizinhos distantes: universidade e ciência na Argentina e no Brasil by HUGO LOVISOLO text in portuguese Disease and stigma • reviewed by DILENE RAIMUNDO DO NASCIMENTO on As máscaras do medo: LeprAids by ITALO TRONCA text in portuguese THESES text in portuguese