Cancer genetics in Cuba and Brazil

This ethnographic study traces the perceptions of doctors and patients undergoing genetic tests.

La familia obrera, 1900-1950

Documentos sobre la atención al obrero en Chile como una cuestión de salud pública.

Cuando los enfermos se organizan, protestan y hasta hacen huelgas

En una conferencia en la Fiocruz, el investigador Diego Armus reflexionó sobre la perspectiva del enfermo en la historia de la medicina.

Opening the archives project

The project aims to digitize 100,000 U.S. government documents on Brazil from 1960-80 and make them available to the public on an open-access website.

The double life of misoprostol in Brazil

This drug is illegally used by women as an abortifacient and legally used in obstetric hospital wards.

Sexología, psiquiatría y psicoanálisis en el Perú

Paulo Drinot, researcher at Institute of the Americas / University College London will speak at Fiocruz on Thursday, 28 April.

Call for participation: Public Health, Medicine and Migrations

The symposium will take place at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, July 2017.

A ‘new Right’ has appeared in the Brazilian political spectrum

The understanding of the current crisis can be traced to the first years of the 21st century. On the eve of Dilma Roussef’s impeachment, the website openDemocracy interviewed Arthur Ituassu.

Vol. 23 • n. 1 • Jan.-Mar. 2016

EDITOR’S NOTE Cueto, Marcos; Silva, André Felipe Cândido da · text in English | Spanish GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE: THE BIOMEDICALIZATION OF BRAZILIAN BODIES: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Löwy, Ilana; Sanabria, Emilia · text in English | Portuguese ANALYSIS The biomedicalisation of illegal abortion: the double life of misoprostol in...

El derecho a la salud en Argentina y en América Latina

La temática fue desarrollada por Karina Ramacciotti y Mario Hernández en el V Congreso Medicina General, 14, 15 y 16 de abril de 2016.