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Health and medicine in Latin America: historical perspectives on the Cold War

“To learn how Latin Americans dealt with the Cold War on a local and international level this book is essential”. See the review by Mariola Espinosa, associate Professor of History at University of Iowa.

Historia en tiempos pandémicos: covid-19 en Latinoamérica

Teniendo como marco la trágica presencia de covid-19, historiadores de México, Argentina y Brasil realizan reflexiones en este texto sobre el contexto de la pandemia, así como su relación con precariedades sanitarias institucionales, estigmas persistentes y desigualdades sociales pasadas.

Contagio, muerte y enfermedad en Argentina

The emergence of dengue as a virological challenge

Although outbreaks were reported throughout the twentieth century, dengue was barely known in the Americas until the epidemic of dengue fever in Cuba in 1981.

Medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust: what are the implications?

In an interview published in the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos, Professor Volker Roelcke explains and analyzes historical evidence refuting erroneous assumptions about medical atrocities committed by physicians during the Nazi era.

Mujeres e higiene industrial en el México posrevolucionario

El artículo analiza un documento sobre el trabajo de mujeres en la fábrica textil La Perfeccionada en la Ciudad de México, en 1919.