September 8th, 2021
Our new edition is out with a range of articles on different topics. The guest editor’s note (n3, Jul-Sept 2021) honors the historian of science Shozo Motoyama, who died on January 26th, 2021, at the age of 81. He was a full professor of History of Science at the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP).
This edition also includes: social medicine in Colombia between 1930 ad 1946; primary health care in the twilight of the Brazilian dictatorship; the discovery of chlorpromazine and the management of madness; the relationship between health and war in Yucatan, Mexico, during the second half of the nineteenth century and much more.
In the section Testimonies of Covid19 historians write on the current pandemic in Mexico, Argentina, the Amazon region and on the historical parallels between this sanitary crisis and the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.
