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

Read our selection of articles and useful links on epidemic diseases that may be helpful in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.

While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz brought significant advantages, public health concerns around yellow fever produced fascination and fear among US audiences.

It analyses the struggle for medical and sanitary hegemony, which revolved essentially around that disease.

Soraya Lódola and Edivaldo Góis Junior did a documentary research about the scientific debate on yellow fever in the Brazilian press between 1895 and 1903.

Francisco Javier Martínez-Antonio explains the polar chamber’s way to freeze Cuba in medical and political terms in the 19th century.

Elaine LaFay discusses how regional assessments raise questions about meanings of tropicality and cultural understandings of tropical diseases.

The workshop is part of the project Policies and Practices of Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective.