This paper provides an overview of the state of Mexican genetics and biomedical knowledge during the second half of the twentieth century.

Measles was declared eradicated in the U.S. in 2000, but has staged a comeback as the inoculation rate has dropped.

Inadequate sanitation-related diseases affect vulnerable populations all over the world. This study argues that sanitation remains virtually invisible in the Brazilian health sector agenda.

Este especial cuenta la historia de una misión de periodistas de El Comercio al leprosorio de San Pablo en la Amazonia peruana. Lea el reportaje y los artículos sobre lepra de HCS-Manguinhos.

Our current issue is now available online. It features a dossier on science during the Cold War, a period that affected not only technology related to the military and space races, but also research in biomedicine and other fields.

Esta edición se centra en el análisis de los trabajos de la memoria que tiene lugar en el marco de las Comisiones de la Verdad constituidas como mecanismo de confrontación y superación de regímenes violentos en América Latina, con artículos sobre los casos de Chile, Argentina, Perú, Guatemala y el Salvador.

El artículo examina la tuberculosis como enfermedad profesional y los usos de estadísticas en discursos oficiales.

The essay argues that doctors and other health practitioners put a “silent racism” into practice in their reports on their interactions with indigenous communities and healers.

This Digital Collection of the National Library of Medicine includes a range of documents and reports on the efforts of government, military personnel, health professionals, and scientists on the home front and overseas during WWII.

This paper argues that pregnancy and childbirth were resignified, including the need for women to internalize the desire and obligation to be healthy during pregnancy and produce healthy children.