August 2022
The history of pesticides and agrochemicals is the topic of two articles recently published in HCSM (vol.29 no.2 Rio de Janeiro Apr./Jun. 2022).
In the article The dictatorship of agrochemicals, Leonardo de Bem Lignani and Júlia Lima Gorges Brandão, PhD candidates at Programa de Pós-graduação em História das Ciências e da Saúde/Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz relate the National Program of Agricultural Defensives (1975-1980) with the developmentalist policies of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the debates on agrochemicals regulation.
In A pesticide in Franco’s regime, Oscar A. Pérez, professor at Skidmore College, examines the communication and representations of the toxic risks of hexachlorocyclohexane, an active ingredient of many pesticides commonly used in Spanish fields during Franco’s regime. Emphasis is placed on the practices that visibilized and invisibilized these risks, seeking to establish the actors that promoted them and the mechanisms they used.
Lignani, Leonardo de Bem e Brandão, Júlia Lima Gorges. The dictatorship of agrochemicals: the National Program of Agricultural Defensives and changes in pesticides production and consumption in Brazil, 1975-1985. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2022, v. 29, n. 2.
Pérez, Oscar A. Un plaguicida en el franquismo: comunicación de riesgos tóxicos en España, 1945-1975. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online].2022, v. 29, n. 2.
Read more about this topic in HCS-Manguinhos:
A history of the use of pesticides in Brazil, 1950-2002 This paper presents a history of the use and perception of pesticides in the state of Santa Catarina.
