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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.

The Brazilian Unified Health System and Coronavirus

The Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS) will be decisive against Coronavirus in Brazil. To understand how the system was created and its rationale read our selected article by two Historians from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ.

Call for submissions for the 26th ICHST ends April 2020

The call for symposium proposals for the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, to be held in Prague 23-29 July 2021, will close on 30 April 2020.

Women in sciences, a historiographical reflection

On International Women Day, we selected articles that offer a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

Tensiones de género en la protección de la infancia

María Soledad Rojas Novoa analiza las condiciones de emergencia del movimiento americano de protección de la infancia a principios del siglo XX.