25 more years!

This issue celebrates the 25th anniversary of HCSM. The editors’ note traces our most significant achievements over this period.

Public health campaigns: getting the message across

This book edited in 2009 by the World Health Organization brings together posters from public health campaigns.

Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña

Un periódico editado por la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA).

Methods of childbirth preparation

The article explores the dissemination of natural childbirth practices through an analysis of books and manuals.

Smoking trends around the globe

World No Tobacco Day. See our articles and stories about tobacco.

Knowledge between Italy and Spain during the Franco regime

This paper analyzes how knowledge, experiences, and practices that circulated between Italy and Spain constructed and influenced both nuclear energy and political power during the Franco regime.

Luso-tropicalism and its discontents

This book reinterprets Gilberto Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world.

The World Health Organization: A history

The book written by Marcos Cueto (science editor of HCSM), Theodore M. Brown (University of Rochester) and Elizabeth Fee (in memorian, National Library of Medicine) was launched by Cambridge University Press.

25 years of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos

Workshop “Present and future of history publications: 25 years of Historia, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos” June 26-28 at Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro.

Peruvian women alleging forced sterilization seek justice

Thousands of Peruvian women have been seeking justice, alleging they were sterilized without consent in the 1990s under an aggressive population control campaign carried out by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori.