Esta serie de vídeos “Jornadas de Investigaciones en Salud: historias post pandémicas en Iberoamérica”, disponibles en el canal de la UNED, reúne reflexiones en torno a la historia de la salud y la enfermedad, con distintos temas, conclusiones o nuevas líneas de avances, tanto historiográficas como vinculadas a otras disciplinas cuyo centro es la salud. La contraseña de acceso a los videos es Salud2024.

In this editorial, published in the British Medical Journal, members of the BMJ’s Council for Latin America, Deisy Ventura (University of São Paulo) and Miguel O’Ryan (University of Chile), address Latin America’s essential contributions to global health and lay out priorities and challenges for improving health and equity in the region.

Sixty years ago, the military overthrew the democratically elected president, João Goulart. For the next 21 years, five generals succeeded each other in a regime that persecuted, arrested, and killed opponents and critics with the motto “Brazil: love it or leave it.”

Two articles published in HCS-Manguinhos explore birth, reproductive rights, and policies toward women in Rio de Janeiro. Their authors, Ilana Lowy (Cermes/Paris) and Cassia Roth (Universidade da Georgia) will be at Fiocruz on 16/05, participating in the event “Encontro às Quintas,” whose theme is “From interrupted justice to reproductive injustice: history, health emergencies and abortion in Brazil.”

This article highlights the elements for diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, in the women’s ward of the Malaga Provincial Psychiatric Hospital during the first half of the 20th century in Spain.

On Women’s International Day, we highlight interviews we did with women researchers for our blog. The topics covered are as varied as their research areas.

It shows how Brazilian eugenicists reconfigured their practices after the Second World War and refused the idea that Brazilian eugenics would have been “soft” and dissociated from scientific racism.

The Congress will be held as a hybrid in-person and online event at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus, New Zealand, in June-July 2025.

This work focuses on the Manguinhos Historical Architectural Site at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, analyzing the meaning of social participation in the recognition, appropriation, preservation, and enhancement of cultural heritage.

El trabajo de Miguel Huertas-Maestro analiza la pertinencia del término “freudomarxismo”, sus diferencias con un psicoanálisis militante argentino influyente en corrientes sociales del psicoanálisis en España, y hace una revisión histórica del movimiento.