Vol. 9 • supplement • 2002

ANALYSIS The trail of Aids in Peru MARCOS CUETO  abstract Health and power: the political emergence of AIDS/HIV in Brazil MARIA CRISTINA DA COSTA MARQUES  abstract Economics, politics, and public health in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910) ANA MARIA CARRILLO  abstract Modernization, medicine, disease, and public health in Caracas (1870-1877) GERMÁN YÉPEZ COLMENARES  abstract The tropics, microbes, and vectors SANDRA CAPONI  abstract Medical teaching under debate: São Paulo, 1890 through 1930 MÁRCIA REGINA BARROS DA SILVA  abstract Physicians, prostitution, and venereal disease in Colombia (1886-1951) DIANA OBREGÓN  abstract “Milonguitas” in Buenos Aires (1910-40): tango, social ascent, and tuberculosis DIEGO ARMUS  abstract Healthy, legitimate children: on marriage and social assistance in Argentina (1935-1948) MARÍA SILVIA DI LISCIA  abstract IMAGES  Malaria in pictures: images from Brazil’s Public Health campaigns in the first half of the Twentieth Century GILBERTO HOCHMAN, MARIA TERESA BANDEIRA DE MELLO and PAULO ROBERTO ELIAN DOS SANTOS abstract SOURCES Sources for the history of health sciences in Brazil (1808-1930) MARIA RACHEL FRÓES DA FONSECA abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Abstracts of the papers presented at the Simpósio Ciencia, Salud y Poder en América Latina y el Caribe, XXI International Congress of History of Science text in spanish