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Psy cultures: psychoanalysis, subjectivity and politics

Mariano Plotkin (Conicet, Universidad Tres de Febrero) and Jane Russo (Instituto de Medicina Social UERJ) are the guest editor`s of the new suplement of HCS-Manguinhos.

New issue online

It explores the relations between psychoanalysis and other forms of knowledge and practices that constitute the so-called psy cultures.

International expositions: a historiographic approach from Latin America

This article was possible thanks to a grant we received from the Wellcome Trust.

A vast collection on Brazilian health and science

Lee R Hiltzik, Assistant Director at the Rockefeller Archive Center provided details about the collection and explained how it can be useful to Brazilian researchers of the history of medicine and science.

Estimado doctor Freud

Este libro de Mariano Ben Plotkin y Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato ofrece una mirada renovada sobre la historia intelectual del psicoanálisis en la región.

Health at the dawn of development

The ideas of Abraham Horwitz, former director of the Pan American Health Organization, on health and development in 1961.