Raul Necochea provides a novel perspective on population-control programs and discusses the role of the many actors, such as US bilateral aid, Catholic and Protestant churches.

This online collection provides information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant “episodes” of contagious disease.

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Podcast interview with Roberto Bertollini, from the World Health Organization, about their strategy to control ebola.

Alejandro Martínez, de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, habla sobre la historia de la fotografía subacuática y su importancia en la ciencia.

Research provides evidence for architecture’s power to induce meditation.

Marine worms reveal surprising strategies for adapting to the cold, dark waters off the Brazilian coast.

For thousands of years artists have played a special role in the human quest to understand anatomy, health and disease. This book celebrates their art.

In this interview to HCSM, the specialist in oceans Helen Rozwadowski talks about her professional trajectory and about the sea as a subject of history.

Gabriel Passetti analyses the writings of Robert FitzRoy about Brazil. The captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s expedition was against slavery and critical of Brazilian economic and social structures.