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El Libro de Cirugía, manuscrito de medicina jesuita en las misiones del cono sur

Acceda a la reseña completa de Miguel de Asúa y al Libro de Cirurgía, editado por Eliane Deckmann Fleck.

The rise of psychoanalysis in US hospitals, 1903-1937

This article explores the work of William Alanson White, who was superintendent of St. Elizabeths, the largest hospital in the United States between 1903 and 1937, and had a significant impact on the practice of the psychoanalytic method in the hospital setting in the country. White considered psychoanalysis important for healing both the individual as well as society.

Orígenes y desarrollo de una política científica nacional en Chille

El artículo de María Soledad Zárate, Daniel Sierra y Margarita Goldflam caracteriza los orígenes y desarrollo de Conycit desde 1967 hasta 1981, cuando al crearse el Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología se inicia una nueva etapa institucional.

Opening reflections on the historiographies of psychotherapies

It situates the transcultural histories of psychotherapies within the context of adjacent fields.

5th Luso-Brazilian Conference on the History of Tropical Medicine

Following the previous congress, which focused on the discussion of planetary health on the United Nations Agenda, this meeting is a privileged moment to bring together national and foreign researchers to promote a forum for reflection and discussion on the concept of One Health, as the result of the most recent discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Japanese imperial psychiatry in Tokyo, 1920 -1945

Akihto Suzuki, medical history professor at Death and Life Studies Centre at the University of Tokyo, follows two Korean immigrants in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, in the first half of the 20th century, and examines their complex hospital stay.