¡Madre y patria!

“El último libro de la investigadora Marisa Miranda es una obra crucial para el desarrollo de los estudios sobre las sexualidades, la eugenesia y los cuerpos en Argentina.” Acceda a la reseña de “¡Madre y patria!”.

Hygiene education in rural Colombia, 1930-1946

This article analyzes hygiene education programs during the first two liberal governments of the Liberal Republic and argues that public health programs did not reach their audience due to local clientelism and political corruption.

Translating History

On 24 May 2017, the UN General Assembly recognized the role of language professionals in connecting nations and fostering peace and declared 30 September as International Translation Day. To celebrate the International Translation Day, we made a selection of articles about different aspects of Brazilian history translated from Portuguese into English

Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program in Latin American Studies

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRCLAS) is accepting applications for their Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program.

Las epidemias en La Pampa, Argentina, en perspectiva histórica

La experiencia histórica descrita en el texto de María Silvia Di Liscia, investigadora del Instituto de Estudios Históricos y Sociales de La Pampa, resalta la importancia de analizar el impacto del SARS-CoV-2 más allá de las grandes ciudades.

La cuestión sanitaria en la Guerra de Castas (Yucatán, México)

Este caso muestra que la aparición y dispersión de enfermedades epidémicas son fenómenos profundamente impactados por la variable de la guerra.

Covid-19 y gripe de 1918-1919: paralelos históricos, preguntas y respuestas

La pandemia de la covid-19 ha motivado un renovado interés por la gripe de 1918-1919. María Isabel Porras Gallo, Catedrática de Historia de la Ciencia en la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha muestra los paralelismos existentes y la necesidad de una toma de conciencia de que nuestro modelo de sociedad está en crisis.

Our new edition is out!

This edition includes social medicine in Colombia between 1930 ad 1946, primary health care in the twilight of the Brazilian dictatorship, health and war in Mexico and the historical parallels between the current Coronavirus crisis and the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.

Shozo Motoyama (1940-2021), several traditions

Motoyama was a forceful defender of the history of science in Brazil. Read the full guest editor’s note by Márcia Regina Barros da Silva, Professor of History at FFLCH-USP.

Family in social sciences

This article explores the social role and transformations of the family over time.