This work reflected Haiti’s status as a public health “laboratory” which affected Haitian medicine for years to come and significantly influenced future campaigns aimed at disease eradication.

In this interview to our blog the Professor of History at the University of Virginia Christian McMillen talks about the main challenges of tuberculosis control in developing countries today.

From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica. This paper explores the role that race played in it.

The article investigates the process of circulation of knowledge which occurred during the first decades of the twentieth century between South American researchers and Europeans.

It analyses the struggle for medical and sanitary hegemony, which revolved essentially around that disease.

HCSM recently announced two calls for papers to two different dossiers, one on the history of homeopathy in Latin America and the other on philanthropy an the state.