Karina Ramacciotti reviews the book by Marcos Cueto and Gabriel Lopes, which connects Brazil’s experience with AIDS to a broader global perspective.

She is an Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and Latin American History at UCLA, and her work focuses on themes such as gender, race, religion, and reproductive health.

The shift process from a Ministry of Hygiene to a Ministry of Public Health in Colombia meant a transitional process towards the institutionalisation of North American model of Public Health.

The editor’s note of our latest issue celebrates the journal’s activities over the past year.

Topics include, among others, dengue fever in the 1980s, astronomy in Chile, Chinese diaspora and racism in Peru, pesticides in Franco’s regime and medicine during the Holocaust.

This dossier brings together a diversity of themes, authors, institutions, and methodological approaches on the history of animals, especially in Latin America.

“Ahora bien, existe sobre Carrillo una recurrente necesidad de ver su ‘otra cara’, algo así como un cíclico afán por descubrir lo oculto tras las evidencias incontrastables.” Para el historiador Gustavo Vallejo, la invocación a las libertades individuales frente a las restricciones basadas en criterios de salud pública, también contribuyó a que la Pandemia diera lugar a un intenso debate en torno al más importante sanitarista de la historia Argentina, Ramón Carrillo.

El artículo analiza el proceso de creación del Instituto de Medicina Experimental, un centro destinado al estudio y el tratamiento del cáncer, inaugurado en el año 1922.

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Una breve entrevista con Karina Ramacciotti, Investigadora Independiente Conicet, sobre el momento actual de la ciencia en Argentina.