Lea la reseña de Karina Felliti publicada en HCS-Manguinhos (vol.23 no.1 Jan./Mar. 2016).

Readers will find articles that explore different aspects of disease: stigmatization, medical discourse and the role of media.

This paper by Jaime Benchimol and André Felipe Cândido da Silva, our former and current science editors, shows how railways supported the development of tropical medicine in the First Republic.

Our journal will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2019. In the editor’s note of our current issue, science editors André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto reflected on the progress made so far and the hurdles still to be overcome.

It reviews the 21 days expedition up the Yaco River, in Alto Purus, federal territory of Acre.

La tuberculosis es un grave problema de salud pública en las Américas, en donde se estiman aproximadamente 23 000 muertos cada año por esta enfermedad, según los datos de la OMS.

It explores the relations between psychoanalysis and other forms of knowledge and practices that constitute the so-called psy cultures.

En el día mundial contra la polio preparamos una compilación de textos sobre el tema, una herramienta muy útil para investigadores.

El trabajo analiza cómo se comportaron las elites médicas uruguayas ante la inminencia de una epidemia desconocida.

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.