Luso-tropicalism and its discontents

This book reinterprets Gilberto Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world.

The World Health Organization: A history

The book written by Marcos Cueto (science editor of HCSM), Theodore M. Brown (University of Rochester) and Elizabeth Fee (in memorian, National Library of Medicine) was launched by Cambridge University Press.

25 years of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos

Workshop “Present and future of history publications: 25 years of Historia, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos” June 26-28 at Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro.

25 años de historias

En julio de 2019, la revista História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos cumple 25 años. Pedimos a nuestros autores, amigos y colaboradores testimonios sobre la revista. El primero de esos testimonios es de Gustavo Caponi, Profesor titular del departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina.

Peruvian women alleging forced sterilization seek justice

Thousands of Peruvian women have been seeking justice, alleging they were sterilized without consent in the 1990s under an aggressive population control campaign carried out by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori.

A hotspot in the history of science

An interview with Ana Barahona, editor of our dossier on the transnational knowledge during the Cold War. She explained the main characteristics of science during that era and its relation with the polarized political order.

Newspapers as sources for the history of medicine

Stories published by the press can also be a valuable source of research material. Read in Manguinhos!