The odyssey of global health revisited

A review of the book by Steven Palmer about the earlier years of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Mundos de la naturaleza y medicina: Nuevas perspectivas históricas

Convocatoria para la presentación de propuestas. Conferencia/taller agosto 2-3, 2017. Fiocruz

The Wellcome Trust offers grants to projects on sexuality and health

Researchers can request support of up to £100,000 (around $130,000). We interviewed Charlene Colegate about the types of projects expected.

‘La historia debe ser, y generalmente puede ser, accesible al “lector general”’

Alan Knight, del comité editorial de Past & Present, expone sus ideas sobre el trabajo editorial realizado en revistas académicas del área de historia.

Nísia Trindade Lima is the new president of Fiocruz

She is the first woman to lead Fiocruz.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on New Trends in the Historiography of Medicine

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science calls for submissions related to the new methodological approaches and objects in the field of the history of medicine.

2016’s best bits: breakthroughs in science

From the discovery of gravitational waves to a promising male contraceptive, the article says 2016 was a groundbreaking year for science.

Medicina y psicología en la Argentina, 1935-1942

El trabajo de Ana Briolotti (Conicet) indaga el uso médico de las técnicas de evaluación psicológica en dispensarios de lactantes de Buenos Aires.