This article published in Time.com suggests that the window of sexual transmission for Zika may be shorter than previously thought.

April 19, 2018, Indian Day in Brazil The Indian in Brazilian photography: incursions into image and medium, by Fernando de Tacca (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), explores contradictions and convergences between a medium (photography) and the image of the Brazilian Indian. HCSM vol.18 no.1 mar....

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on the work of women in sciences and philosophy.

Preference will be given to projects that engage specifically with the history of women physicians, other health workers, or medical scientists.

La tuberculosis es un grave problema de salud pública en las Américas, en donde se estiman aproximadamente 23 000 muertos cada año por esta enfermedad, según los datos de la OMS.

Free online course on malaria free offered by Harvard University

March 2018 Invited Editors: Jethro Hernandez Berrones (Southwestern University) Patricia Palma, UC Davis. Deadline for papers: April 30, 2018. We are pleased to receive manuscripts on homeopathy in Latin America and their transnational networks to be published in the journal História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (HCSM)...

Marzo, 2018 El objetivo del presente dossier de Culturas Psi consiste en contribuir al esclarecimiento de las reinterpretaciones de sexo, de género, y del vínculo existente entre ambos, que se desprenden de distintas formas de conocimiento. En particular, nos interesan estudios que aborden el problema “sexo-género”, tanto desde las perspectivas...

February 2018 The ideal Reingold Prize paper should be original; historiographically sophisticated; based on primary sources, either published or archival; clearly argued; well written; and interesting. Successful papers in the past have come from parts of dissertations in progress or revised seminar papers. The prize recognizes an original and unpublished...

This dossier examines different aspects of medicine in the Portuguese colonial period, such as the slave trade and the circulation of diseases.