The purpose of this article is to discuss the eugenics model used by the medical-sanitarist Belisário Penna during the sanitation campaign in Brazil in the 1920s and 1930s.

Las relaciones históricas entre psiquiatría, derecho y la consideración del enfermo mental como peligroso han marcado profundamente el devenir de la psiquiatría. Acceda a la reseña completa de “La sombra de la sospecha”, de Ricardo Campos, escrita por Gustavo Vallejo.

A selection of articles that address, from a historical perspective, racial issues in Brazil and the sad slave past that had deep and lasting consequences to our society.

The DHST Commission of Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) exists to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary historical studies on the relationships between science, technology and diplomacy. STAND invites researchers for their 3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy entitled “Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy”, from 19 to 21 July, 2023, at University of São Paulo.

Marcos Cueto, Science editor of HCSM, published with Gabriel Lopes, “Braiding Public Health and Human Rights: AIDS, Activism, and International Agencies in Brazil, 1987–1996” Latin American Research Review (2022). This article examines the emergence of a synergy that allowed the early development of what was once considered the best anti-AIDS program in the developing world.

By 1910, the Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires had firmly established itself in the transnational networks of zoos. This article is part of the dossier Cultura Material de la Ciencia Iberoamericana: museos jardines y gabinetes científicos.

Convocatoria de propuestas: Exposiciones de 20 minutos con formato híbrido (presencial y virtual), de especialistas vinculados a la historia de la salud y la enfermedad, la sociología de la ciencia y la antropología social, así como la epidemiología, estadística y otras disciplinas.

El rol de la fotografía en la producción de conocimiento experimental.

En los últimos años, los historiadores sociales de la medicina se han interesado en las ideas y prácticas de la medicina no oficial. El libro editado por Diego Armus y Pablo F. Gómez presenta una serie de ensayos sobre profesionales de la salud que trabajaban en zonas grises, o entre medicinas oficiales y no oficiales.

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. received his medical degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and specialized in public health and epidemiology at the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) in Rio de Janeiro. He will begin his five-year term on 1 February 2023.