Recent Posts

Covid-19 in Latin America: conflicts, resistances and inequalities

This supplement gathers original and relevant studies establishing a dialogue between the past and the present.

The Amazon Forest in HCS-Manguinhos

HCS-Manguinhos has already published several articles on the Amazon forest from a historical perspective.

Mosquitoes as disease vectors

We highlight some articles in which mosquitoes are protagonists.

El triángulo necesario: médicos, arquitectos y administradores de hospitales en la ciudad de México, 1940-1950

El estudio de la crucial interacción y colaboración de los saberes de médicos, arquitectos y administradores para materializar la reforma hospitalaria emprendida en México a partir de la década de 1940 es el eje que articula el presente trabajo.

A summary of our activities in 2022

Marcos Cueto highlights some fundamental contributions we published last year in the most recent editor’s note of volume 30 of HCS-Manguinhos.

Reports by explorers and travelers and the first scientific studies on ayahuasca, 1850 to 1950

The article discusses the pioneering expeditions to the Amazon in the 19th century, the different uses of ayahuasca and the pharmaceutical interest in the subject.