Two articles published in the latest volume of HCS-Manguinhos (vol 30, 2023) explore issues related to slaves’ health and disease in eighteenth-century South America.
According to the National Institute of Meteorology, most Brazilian states face great danger from the heat. We gathered articles, stories, and blog posts about environmental history and climate change already published in HCS-Manguinhos to shed some light on this matter. Topics include the production of climate knowledge, the importance of reforestation, the concept of “planetary health,” and digital archives of environmental history.
El libro, coordinado por los historiadores de la ciencia Ximo Guillem-Llobat y Agustí Nieto-Galan, explora cómo se ocultó, de forma deliberada o pasiva, la historia de algunas sustancias y industrias tóxicas, a menudo con la connivencia de los expertos con las administraciones públicas y las empresas privadas.