Best known for his 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America, the Uruguayan writer and journalist was one of the region’s noted anti-capitalist voices.

This article explores the position that Brazil occupies at international level and how this position is reflected in its foreign policy, especially in the health area.

Despite the dissemination of preventive measures, cervical cancer remains a serious problem in Brazil.

“Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.

An Emory University Digital Initiative offers maps, documents, essays and images of slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Today, April 7th, World Health Day, we would like to thank readers and authors, who both support us in the dissemination of history, science and health – our primary goal.

Documentos e imágenes de la época están disponibles en el sitio web de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.

They welcome presentations on any topic and time period and especially hope to receive submissions that speak to this year’s theme of Materiality Medica.

In this article, Karina Ramacciotti aims to examine the transnational references in local discussions about occupational accidents in Peru and Chile during the first half of the twentieth century.

The movie Principia will be a historical drama inspired by the mathematician´s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia.