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.

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.