One of the aspects that received the most attention from nineteenth-century journalists was the hygiene and health of the population of Rio de Janeiro. Women and men became the targets of a series of prescriptions in the press that described how the people of the city should care for their body and health, after all, a healthy body was a prerequisite for shaping men and women suitable to contribute to the future of the Empire.

Acceda a la reseña completa de Miguel de Asúa y al Libro de Cirurgía, editado por Eliane Deckmann Fleck.

This article explores the work of William Alanson White, who was superintendent of St. Elizabeths, the largest hospital in the United States between 1903 and 1937, and had a significant impact on the practice of the psychoanalytic method in the hospital setting in the country. White considered psychoanalysis important for healing both the individual as well as society.

The U.S National Library of Medicine offers more than 70 thousand images from the history of medicine from the 15th to 21st. century.

El artículo de María Soledad Zárate, Daniel Sierra y Margarita Goldflam caracteriza los orígenes y desarrollo de Conycit desde 1967 hasta 1981, cuando al crearse el Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología se inicia una nueva etapa institucional.

It situates the transcultural histories of psychotherapies within the context of adjacent fields.

Following the previous congress, which focused on the discussion of planetary health on the United Nations Agenda, this meeting is a privileged moment to bring together national and foreign researchers to promote a forum for reflection and discussion on the concept of One Health, as the result of the most recent discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Akihto Suzuki, medical history professor at Death and Life Studies Centre at the University of Tokyo, follows two Korean immigrants in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, in the first half of the 20th century, and examines their complex hospital stay.

NTDs are a diverse group of conditions that are mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where they mostly affect impoverished communities. See our selection of articles and blog posts.

Este libro recupera los discursos científicos y políticos que circularon en torno a la maternidad en la Buenos Aires de inicios del siglo XX. Acceda a la reseña de la investigadora Marisa Miranda en HCS-Manguinhos.