In an interview published in the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos, Professor Volker Roelcke explains and analyzes historical evidence refuting erroneous assumptions about medical atrocities committed by physicians during the Nazi era.

Our current issue features an interview with historian of science, technology, and medicine Christopher Hamlin in which he explains how he became interested in the history of public health. In 2010, his book “Cholera: The biography” was one of the British Medical Association’s highly commended books.

In this interview to the blog of HCS-Manguinhos, historian Frederico Freitas talks about the spatial perspective in the interaction between human and nonhuman animals and the historical importance of Iguazú and Iguaçu national parks at the border of Brazil and Argentina.

“Some will certainly argue that humans must be fed, including with the cheapest meat possible to satisfy vitamin B-12 and iron requirements, but how humane or even rational are we, with global temperatures on the rise and pandemic diseases spreading in response to the way we use the planet and its nonhuman inhabitants?”, asks the article.

Historian Peter Burke talks about how he discovered HCS-Manguinhos.

This book reinterprets Gilberto Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Stories published by the press can also be a valuable source of research material. Read in Manguinhos!

Dominique Pestre (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) offers some of his thoughts on the role of science and knowledge in our contemporary world.

Bruno Romero Ferreira Miranda describes how the West Indian Company had to deal with a more deadly and persistent opponent than the Portuguese when they arrived in Brazil; namely the innumerous diseases found here.

Alan Knight, Emeritus Professor of the History of Latin America and fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, gives us his insights into Eduardo Galeano’s work and influence.