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La familia obrera, 1900-1950

Documentos sobre la atención al obrero en Chile como una cuestión de salud pública.

Cuando los enfermos se organizan, protestan y hasta hacen huelgas

En una conferencia en la Fiocruz, el investigador Diego Armus reflexionó sobre la perspectiva del enfermo en la historia de la medicina.

Opening the archives project

The project aims to digitize 100,000 U.S. government documents on Brazil from 1960-80 and make them available to the public on an open-access website.

The double life of misoprostol in Brazil

This drug is illegally used by women as an abortifacient and legally used in obstetric hospital wards.

A ‘new Right’ has appeared in the Brazilian political spectrum

The understanding of the current crisis can be traced to the first years of the 21st century. On the eve of Dilma Roussef’s impeachment, the website openDemocracy interviewed Arthur Ituassu.

The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

This recently launched book covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present.