In 2014, HCS-Manguinhos published the dossier Oceans and seas: history science, policy (v.21, n.3, jul.-set. 2014) about the history of our oceans and policies about them. It features eleven articles ranging from reports written by Captain Robert FitzRoy, from HMS Beagle, during his trip to Brazil, to the myth of the Kraken, a “monster” that haunted sailors between Norway, Iceland, and Greenland.

Researcher José Ignacio Mogrovejo Palomo examines writings by the Peruvian scientist Luis Carranza and indicates how the imaginary of the country’s geography made it possible to conceptualize nature as an essential component of Peruvian identity.

Los artículos analizan temas como los archivos digitales de historia ambiental y la historiografía de los animales en América Latina.

El último número de la revista ASCLEPIO (Vol. 75 Núm. 1, 2023) presenta el dossier acercamientos históricos a las relaciones terapéuticas. Todo el contenido está disponible en formato electrónico para descarga online, en libre acceso.

Hannah Woolley(1622 – c.1675) was an English writer who published early books on household management and cookery. This article by Marina Juliana de Oliveira Soares, Professor of Education in the Humanities at Faculdade SESI-São Paulo, describes the seventeenth-century English woman writer’s interest in medical care and highlights the importance of female protagonism in the dissemination of knowledge.

In the 1930s, the Colombian government implemented the Healthy Child Contest aimed to guarantee the future of the “race” and the nation.