Marcos Cueto, Science editor of HCSM, published with Gabriel Lopes, “Braiding Public Health and Human Rights: AIDS, Activism, and International Agencies in Brazil, 1987–1996” Latin American Research Review (2022). This article examines the emergence of a synergy that allowed the early development of what was once considered the best anti-AIDS program in the developing world.

This article analyses illness experiences of breast cancer in women undergoing treatment at the Hospital of Cancer III of the National Institute of Cancer, in Rio de Janeiro.

This overview of books on Brazilian environmental history includes topics such as forests, agriculture, biodiversity, urban dynamics and environmentalism.

It explores how fevers affected social life in Brazil in the early nineteenth century and the efforts to establish medical knowledge about fevers in tropical environments.

Paper from SSRN constructs a unique database on socioeconomic and health outcomes for all districts in São Paulo using historical and contemporary documents.

Francieli Lunelli Santos and José Augusto Leandro examine the family profiles of women holding key decision-making positions in health policy concerning leprosy from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s.

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.

Ana Luiza D’Ávila Viana, Guilherme Arantes Mello and Marcelo Demarzo defend the need to review the concept of regionalization to allow larger productive possibilities.

Edited by Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell, and Sven Widmalm, with the collaboration of André Felipe Cândido da Silva, research illustrates how German diplomacy influenced Brazilian academia during the Nazi regime.

Case studies in the early 19th century illustrate that consideration of broader contexts provide more accurate pictures.