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The history of pesticides and agrochemicals is the topic of two articles recently published in HCSM.

El libro de César Leyton Robinson tiene como objetivo general analizar las relaciones entre higiene, geopolítica y poder político en las estrategias de erradicación y segregación de grupos poblacionales implementadas en Santiago de Chile durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet.

Researchers José Ragas and Patricia Palma examine three major epidemics (yellow fever, the bubonic plague, and covid-19) to demonstrate the current and somewhat surprising shift in negative attitudes toward the Chinese community.

¿Es el conocimiento de la muerte el que da origen a la religión? Éste es el tema un libro disponible para descarga gratuita en el sitio web de la Universidad Nacional de México.

This article relates the Brazilian Program of Agricultural Defensives (1975-1980) with the developmentalist policies of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the debates on agrochemicals regulation.

“To learn how Latin Americans dealt with the Cold War on a local and international level this book is essential”. See the review by Mariola Espinosa, associate Professor of History at University of Iowa.

Aug 2022   Morir en las grandes pestes, de Maximiliano Fiquepron, estudia, desde distintas dimensiones, la huella que las epidemias de cólera y fiebre amarilla dejaron en la sociedad porteña en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. En el libro se analizan las múltiples respuestas sociales a las crisis epidémicas ocurridas en Buenos Aires en las décadas de...

Although outbreaks were reported throughout the twentieth century, dengue was barely known in the Americas until the epidemic of dengue fever in Cuba in 1981.

In an interview published in the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos, Professor Volker Roelcke explains and analyzes historical evidence refuting erroneous assumptions about medical atrocities committed by physicians during the Nazi era.