Esta edición se centra en el análisis de los trabajos de la memoria que tiene lugar en el marco de las Comisiones de la Verdad constituidas como mecanismo de confrontación y superación de regímenes violentos en América Latina, con artículos sobre los casos de Chile, Argentina, Perú, Guatemala y el Salvador.

El artículo examina la tuberculosis como enfermedad profesional y los usos de estadísticas en discursos oficiales.

The essay argues that doctors and other health practitioners put a “silent racism” into practice in their reports on their interactions with indigenous communities and healers.

This Digital Collection of the National Library of Medicine includes a range of documents and reports on the efforts of government, military personnel, health professionals, and scientists on the home front and overseas during WWII.

This paper argues that pregnancy and childbirth were resignified, including the need for women to internalize the desire and obligation to be healthy during pregnancy and produce healthy children.

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophe on a global scale. This paper investigates the epidemic in Coimbra, Portugal, using information found in the pages of a local newspaper.