Maria Margaret Lopes and Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa affirm that Brazil has been living under the impact of severe environmental, cultural, and political disasters for centuries.

The Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Closing date for applications is March 31, 2020.

Evelynn Hammonds, Chair of the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, presents some of the most important works and approaches that marked the historiography of race, specially in the United States.

Para María Isabel Porras Gallo no bastan recursos médicos y tecnológicos eficaces. “Es imprescindible la existencia de mínimas condiciones higiénico-sanitarias, económicas y sociales”.

Eduardo Menéndez deja en evidencia la incapacidad de las políticas de prevención y promoción de la salud de acompañar la complejidad de la dinámica social en torno al alcoholismo.

Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Magali Romero Sá analyze the meaning of the collections gathered in two series of scientific expeditions carried out in Brazil from the early to the mid-twentieth century.