It examines the political dimension of processes of climate knowledge production.

It argues that tetanus disproportionately killed the enslaved population, but gradually diminished in virulenceby the second half of the 1800s.

“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness,” says the letter.

This paper spans the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930) and shows that since its proclamation the issue of regulating the food trade was part of health policies.

This paper discusses the work of the historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda, especially on how human societies and the natural environment have affected one another.

The basic idea of this study is that public sanitation policies are strongly influenced by actors, interests, and institutions

They criticized Brazilian authorities for inaction towards the water crisis and for lack of transparency. They also warned of the risk of social unrest.

Cassia Roth, from the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the connection between state policies towards reproduction in early-twentieth-century Brazil and the current situation in women’s reproductive health.

The complex and fascinating process of emergence of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil in the late 80s is thoroughly examined by Paulo Henrique de Almeida Rodrigues

Thirteen original articles published in the supplement “Health and Slavery” of the journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos