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.

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.

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.

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

El historiador Jorge Lossio, director del Instituto Riva Agüero, de la Universidad Católica del Peru, habla de la situación epidemiológica en el país, las respuestas estatales y sociales y la actual revaloración de la historia de la salud.

Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa was a scientist and teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose work spanned engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and law. This paper discusses a manuscript entitled “Table of mineral classification,” which he appended to his dissertation presented to the Faculty of Medicine in 1889.

It addresses the institutionalization of marine biology in Portugal at the beginning of the 20th century, which included the creation of scientific research institutes and public aquariums.

El artículo de Andrea Graus, investigadora en el Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, en Paris, explora la apropiación de la terminología psiquiátrica por parte de teólogos y párrocos franceses en el siglo XIX. Esta apropiación le sirvió al clero para demarcar la experiencia mística “auténtica” de la simulada o “desviada”.

August 19th, World Photography Day. A selection of articles and blog posts on photography from the history of medicine.

Paulo Drinot, professor of Latin American History at UCL, takes on the subject of sex work and sheds light on topics such as sexuality, public health, nation-building and state formation in Peru.