Researcher José Ignacio Mogrovejo Palomo examines writings by the Peruvian scientist Luis Carranza and indicates how the imaginary of the country’s geography made it possible to conceptualize nature as an essential component of Peruvian identity.

Los artículos analizan temas como los archivos digitales de historia ambiental y la historiografía de los animales en América Latina.

El último número de la revista ASCLEPIO (Vol. 75 Núm. 1, 2023) presenta el dossier acercamientos históricos a las relaciones terapéuticas. Todo el contenido está disponible en formato electrónico para descarga online, en libre acceso.

Hannah Woolley(1622 – c.1675) was an English writer who published early books on household management and cookery. This article by Marina Juliana de Oliveira Soares, Professor of Education in the Humanities at Faculdade SESI-São Paulo, describes the seventeenth-century English woman writer’s interest in medical care and highlights the importance of female protagonism in the dissemination of knowledge.

In the 1930s, the Colombian government implemented the Healthy Child Contest aimed to guarantee the future of the “race” and the nation.

With this announcement, HCS-Manguinhos decided to end the Journal’s section “Testimonies Covid-19″, in which researchers reflected on the pandemic in their countries.id-19”,

Una selección de artículos sobre diferentes temas de la salud mental siempre en una perspectiva histórica.

En la primera mitad de 1951 ocurrieron en México la última epidemia y el último caso de viruela. Esta nota de investigación estudia la etapa posterior a la declaración de la erradicación de la enfermedad en el país.

This paper explores women’s experiences in Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho (CPDCF), a birthing house in Rio de Janeiro that offers a home-like environment, with a minimum of medical interventions during childbirth.

Images and documents include research on Hookworm disease in South America, 1920-1927, the fight against Yellow Fever and Malaria in Brazil, 1928-1942, papers on World War II typhus fever and Malaria in the Mediterranean, and documents related Soper’s work at the Pan American Health Organisation, 1947-1959.