Our science editor Marcos Cueto and book review editor Ana Carolina Vimieiro-Gomes share some relevant reflections about drafting and adding value to book reviews. Recent Posts
The academic value of book reviews
Our science editor Marcos Cueto and book review editor Ana Carolina Vimieiro-Gomes share some relevant reflections about drafting and adding value to book reviews. A brief history of pesticides and agrochemicals in Brazil and Spain
The history of pesticides and agrochemicals is the topic of two articles recently published in HCSM. Genealogía de una política socio sanitaria
El libro de César Leyton Robinson tiene como objetivo general analizar las relaciones entre higiene, geopolítica y poder político en las estrategias de erradicación y segregación de grupos poblacionales implementadas en Santiago de Chile durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Covid-19 and racism in Peru
Researchers José Ragas and Patricia Palma examine three major epidemics (yellow fever, the bubonic plague, and covid-19) to demonstrate the current and somewhat surprising shift in negative attitudes toward the Chinese community. La invención de la muerte
¿Es el conocimiento de la muerte el que da origen a la religión? Éste es el tema un libro disponible para descarga gratuita en el sitio web de la Universidad Nacional de México.
Pesticides production and consumption in Brazil, 1975-1985
This article relates the Brazilian Program of Agricultural Defensives (1975-1980) with the developmentalist policies of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the debates on agrochemicals regulation. .
