July 2019
HCSM- 25 Years
Steven Palmer is a History Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada and a member of our editorial council. He has written several books, among them Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, and the awarded book Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History, co-written by Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCSM. For the celebration of the 25 years of HCS-Manguinhos, Palmer tells us a story of our former editor Jaime Benchimol.
Steven Palmer. He interviewed (with Gilberto Hochman) Donald A. Henderson, director of World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program from 1966 to 1977 (HCSM, 2010) . Click on the image to see the article.
“The first time I saw Jaime Benchimol in action was in 1999. Marcos Cueto and Diego Armus, at the time visiting faculty at NYU had organized a conference on the history of medicine and health in Spain and Latin America. Jaime blew through the door of the seminar room late, straight from the airport after an overnight flight, tossed his bag into the corner, and threw himself into the proceedings.
After listening to a paper by one of the historians from Spain, he launched into a passionate defense of the nineteenth-century physicians who had been denounced as oppressive agents of biopower by the foucauldian speaker.
I realized then and there that I was in the presence of an extraordinary scholar, humanist, and iconoclast. This made me decide to read his book on Jose Domingos Freire and explore a copy of the journal, and happily both transformed my development as a historian very much for the better,” Steven Palmer, History Professor at the University of Windsor
Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer win the 2017 George Rosen Prize – The book “Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History” won a prize given by the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer win a LASA book award – The book “Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History”, has been declared the winner of this year’s book award by the Health, Science, and Technology section of Latin American Association, LASA.
The odyssey of global health revisited – A review of the book by Steven Palmer about the earlier years of the Rockefeller Foundation.
La fiebre amarilla y el papel central de La Habana en el siglo 19 – Steven Palmer hace un recuento del papel central de La Habana en las investigaciones sobre la fiebre amarilla en el siglo 19.
