In order to understand healthcare assistance in nineteenth century Brazil, Rogério Siqueira and Maria Renilda Barreto examine the Zona da Mata region in the state of Minas Gerais.
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International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network
The 3rd International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network will take place in Lisbon, 28-29 May 2020.
Women involved in Brazil’s health policy on leprosy
Francieli Lunelli Santos and José Augusto Leandro examine the family profiles of women holding key decision-making positions in health policy concerning leprosy from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s.
History as a tool to learn to deal with epidemics
Read our selection of articles and useful links on epidemic diseases that may be helpful in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.
Covid-19 and Globalization Epidemics
“The terrible epidemic we are experiencing is evidence not only of the economic, social and environmental forces that neoliberalism unleashed, but also of its inability to build an inclusive future”. Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCS-Manguinhos.
History of hospital care in São Paulo and charity
Márcia Regina Barros da Silva investigates how the santas casas de misericórdia in the state of São Paulo were subsidized by the government at the turn of the twentieth century.
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