“To learn how Latin Americans dealt with the Cold War on a local and international level this book is essential”. See the review by Mariola Espinosa, associate Professor of History at University of Iowa.

Our last edition of HCSM 2020 is out. It presents a historiographical review on Brazilian environmental history.

The essay argues that infectious diseases have crucially shaped the past and present of the continent.

Interview with Dr. Jethro Hernández, who examines how homeopaths irrupted in the Mexican medical profession.

Gathered at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the team proudly launches the journal’s latest issue.

Historia Crítica, publicación de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) anuncia que recibirá artículos para el dossier “Género e Historia en América Latina, siglos XVII al XX.

The theme of the next congress of the Latin American Studies Association is “Améfrica Ladina: vinculando mundos y saberes, tejiendo esperanzas”.

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.

João Nunes (University of York) reviews this book considering its key contributions, which overall question commonly held assumptions about the origins and trajectory of international and global health.

The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct./Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.