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The importance of the historical perspective for social thinking in health

It reviews the work of two prominent Brazilian authors of collective health.

La Campaña Nacional Contra el Cáncer en México

Ana María Carrillo (UNAM) estudia los primeros esfuerzos organizados en México para combatir al cáncer. HCSM vol. 17, jul. 2010.

Mujeres en movimiento

Este libro reúne artículos sobre los sentidos y significados desde donde se modelaron determinadas formas de feminidad vinculadas con las prácticas deportivas y la cultura física en la Argentina.

Against the global trend

Fiocruz researchers argue that tobacco consumption in Brazil goes in the opposite direction to global trend, which is the migration of the problem of tobacco from the developed countries to low income regions.

Art in mental health care

This paper explores the experience of art at the Juliano Moreira Colony in the 1950s.

Infectious disease and federalism in early twentieth-century Brazil

In the current issue of of HCSM vol.25 no.2 Rio de Janeiro Apr./June 2018, Eve Buckley, Associate Professor at the University of Delaware reviews the book.