In an interview to HCS-Manguinhos, Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan, talks about her initial findings related to ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.

The article about the yellow fever vaccine in Brazil was written by Jaime Benchimol, member of our scientific editorial council.

Richard Mark Cleminson discusses the participation of Portuguese eugenicists in “Latin eugenics”.

El trabajo analiza la vida cotidiana de los ‘niños tuberculosos’ que fueron internados en el Hospital Marítimo, Mar del Plata.

La doctora en Historia de la Universidad Católica de Chile Paula Caffarena estudia la difusión de la vacuna contra la viruela en Chile como parte de un proceso global que culminó con la erradicación de la enfermedad.

Through an examination of Renato Kehl’s and Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s eugenic projects, the paper investigates their contact with the international thinking in the field.