Health education posters used by the Department of Health and Public Assistance of Bahia State. In Education and health propaganda: repercussions of a Brazilian sanitarian’s training at the Rockefeller Foundation
Leishmaniasis is the only neglected tropical disease which is still growing. Brazil is the country in the Americas with the most cases of this disease in its three forms: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral.
The article Leishmaniases of the New World from a historical and global perspective, from the 1930s to the 1960s, by Jaime Larry Benchimol, Researcher and professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, shows how visceral leishmaniasis established itself as a public health problem in Brazil.
Published in HCS-Manguinho’s special issue the meanings of global public health, it covers the disease until the 1960s, when it began to appear on the international health agenda.
According to the article, knowledge production and efforts to control the disease have mobilized health professionals, government agencies and institutions, international agencies, and rural and urban populations. Benchimol’s study also addresses the exchange and cooperation networks they established.
Some celebratory reflections For the celebration of the 25 years of HCS-Manguinhos, Steven Palmer, History Professor at the University of Windsor tells us a story of our former editor Jaime Benchimol.
Railroads and tropical medicine in Brazil This paper by Jaime Benchimol and André Felipe Cândido da Silva, our former and current science editors, shows how railways supported the development of tropical medicine in the First Republic.
The Politics of Vaccination The article about the yellow fever vaccine in Brazil was written by Jaime Benchimol, member of our scientific editorial council.
Roads Traveled Science editor Jaime Benchimol says good-bye to História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos front line.
Editor experiences history in the streets “It was a beautiful demonstration, spontaneous and very concerned with making its peaceful intentions clear and with rebuffing the small groups that intended to resort to violence and that stood sharply apart in the crowds,” says HCSM science editor Jaime Benchimol.
An editor between blogs and an old Olivetti Why is the journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos launching a blog and moving into social media? Editor Jaime Benchimol scratches his head but admits that there is a need to keep up with a changing world.
Amazonian artwork by Wallace and Bates now accessible online
Stem cell research in Brazil
Photography and railroads
Mosquitoes as disease vectors
Genealogía de una política socio sanitaria aplicada durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet, 1973-1990
International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network