Mar 2015
The publication ‘Tropical Diseases: lessons from history” made by The Coalition for Global Hearing Health was released in May 2014. The volume is based on the 2009 World Health Organization Global Health Histories seminar series of the same name, and is intended to reach out and transfer to a wider audience the knowledge generated by these landmark seminars.
It gathers together all of the topics featured in 2009’s series; leprosy, guinea worm disease, sleeping sickness, river blindness, malaria, chagas disease, kala azar, tropical disease vectors, and essential and inessential medicines, as well as new chapters on related questions.
Each forms an independent chapter introduced by two articles, one by an academic researcher and the other by a WHO official. The articles are complemented with feature photographs selected from several repositories and highlighting important episodes in the story of these dangerous diseases. ‘Tropical Diseases: lessons from history’ is bilingual, in English and Portuguese side by side.
Read more about tropical diseases in HCS Manguinhos:
Zabala, Juan Pablo. Historia de la enfermedad de Chagas en Argentina: evolución conceptual, institucional y política. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jul 2009, vol.16, suppl.1, p.57-74. ISSN 0104-5970
Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick. The reception by French physicians of Chagas’ discovery of Trypanosoma cruziand American trypanosomiasis (1909-1925). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos
Lima, Nísia Trindade and Botelho, André. Malaria as a disease and as a cultural perspective in Carlos Chagas’ and Mário de Andrade’s travels to the Amazon. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.3, pp. 745-763. ISSN 0104-5970.
Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970
