The Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS) will be decisive against Coronavirus in Brazil. To understand how the system was created and its rationale read our selected article by two Historians from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ.

The call for symposium proposals for the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, to be held in Prague 23-29 July 2021, will close on 30 April 2020.

On International Women Day, we selected articles that offer a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

María Soledad Rojas Novoa analiza las condiciones de emergencia del movimiento americano de protección de la infancia a principios del siglo XX.

Maria Margaret Lopes and Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa affirm that Brazil has been living under the impact of severe environmental, cultural, and political disasters for centuries.

The Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Closing date for applications is March 31, 2020.

Evelynn Hammonds, Chair of the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, presents some of the most important works and approaches that marked the historiography of race, specially in the United States.

Para María Isabel Porras Gallo no bastan recursos médicos y tecnológicos eficaces. “Es imprescindible la existencia de mínimas condiciones higiénico-sanitarias, económicas y sociales”.

Eduardo Menéndez deja en evidencia la incapacidad de las políticas de prevención y promoción de la salud de acompañar la complejidad de la dinámica social en torno al alcoholismo.

Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Magali Romero Sá analyze the meaning of the collections gathered in two series of scientific expeditions carried out in Brazil from the early to the mid-twentieth century.