Este artículo estudia la profesionalización de la odontología en Colombia en la primera mitad del siglo XX y las tensiones entre los practicantes con diploma y los sin diploma.

The Project “FEVER – Global Histories of (a) Disease,” based at the University of Heidelberg’s History Department, recruits two doctoral researchers. The project explores the history of fever and febrile diseases in societies connected to the Atlantic world between 1750 and 1840.

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.

From a historical perspective, we have selected articles that address racial issues in Brazil and the sad slave past that had profound and lasting consequences for our society. Articles also include topics related to black culture and resistance.

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 artículo se centra en “el área covid” del Hospital Nacional Profesor Alejandro Posadas, buscando conocer el reordenamiento del espacio y rutinas hospitalarias, y las formas de comunicar la muerte.