This 1916 report features a comprehensive analysis of education in Brazil with a special focus on the medical profession.
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Los comienzos de la pediatría en Buenos Aires entre 1890 y 1920
El artículo analiza la constitución de la pediatría como un saber médico especializado.
PAHO ‘Leaders in International Health’ program now accepting applications
Professionals from countries throughout the Americas are eligible. Deadline: Feb. 15.
Women’s reproductive health in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro
Cassia Roth, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, shows that elevated stillbirth and maternal mortality rates marked women’s reproductive years, despite official efforts to medicalize childbirth and increase access to clinical healthcare.
Labor, childbirth and infant mortality
This edition features two dossiers: the medicalization of childbirth, and child health and mortality.
The establishment of the Manguinhos laboratory, 1894-1902
In order to understand the 1900 establishment of the Federal Serum Therapy Institute of Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, this paper analyzes the circulation of knowledge and international disputes surrounding vaccines.
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