Recent Posts

La protección a la maternidad de las trabajadoras en Argentina

Carolina Biernat y Karina Ramaciotti analizan la construcción de las políticas sociales destinadas a las madres trabajadoras durante el primer peronismo.

Zefinha, the longest confined woman in Brazil

Debora Diniz and Luciana Brito (Universidade de Brasília) analyze dossier, judicial proceedings, interviews and photographs about the woman who spent more time within the walls of the forensic hospital than outside them.

Reconsidering the peripheral in global health

João Nunes (University of York) reviews this book considering its key contributions, which overall question commonly held assumptions about the origins and trajectory of international and global health.

Carlos Chagas in the Amazon, 1913

It reviews the 21 days expedition up the Yaco River, in Alto Purus, federal territory of Acre.

medicina china en la era de migración global

El artículo aborda los factores sociales y políticos que determinaron la adaptación de la medicina china en Lima y California, 1850-1930.

Our current issue is available online!

Our first edition of 2018 features articles on a range of topics: from Chinese medicine in Lima to health practices related to children.