In the book Health and Development edited by Iris Borowy and Bernard Harris, Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCS-Manguinhos, is the author of a case study about the World Health Organization (WHO). He examines the beginnings of two health proposals that emerged simultaneously at WHO in 2005: Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Until well into the 20th century, the working conditions of pharmacy assistants – often overworked internal workers – were extremely hard. This article explores the introduction of the eight-hour working day in Spanish pharmacies in 1919, as well as the legislative background that led to it.

This article tries to show how the consequences of refusing an interpretation can be very different within Freudian, Jungian, and other psychotherapeutic models.

El surgimiento de las terapias biológicas de shock en Psiquiatría durante la década de 1930 ofreció, por primera vez, instrumentos terapéuticos “reales” para la disciplina. Este artículo analiza la implementación de tales tratamientos en el Instituto de Psiquiatría de Rosario, Argentina.

Medical doctors from several schools started to use the term “psychotherapies” to define therapies that sought moral treatment, cure of automatism, persuading or producing catharsis, affecting body, mind and unconscious.

In the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, Brazil faced twin problems: infection and hunger. More than a century later, Covid-19 again brought forth these interconnected problems.

She was the first woman to lead Fiocruz.

“Many hands, hearts, and minds worked together during those challenging early days, and new professors contributed to this collective construction,” says Nísia Trindade Lima, President of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, in the guest editor’s letter.

Para celebrar la victoria de Argentina en el Mundial de fútbol de Qatar preparamos una selección de artículos que ilustran distintos aspectos de la historia de la ciencia y de la medicina en el país.

The paper concludes that psychoanalysis over this period was dominated by the discourse of neutrality.