March 2016
An Aedes aegypti mosquito viewed through a microscope in a laboratory at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research.
The Zika virus has hit Venezuela at the worst possible time. The country needs anything and everything people require to live, including food, water and medicine. Hospitals are dangerously short of basic supplies, including gauze and needles. Photographer Manu Quintero documented different aspects of Zika virus in Venezuela. Click here to see the full essay.
The thalidomide disaster, 1960-1962
En la ciudad de los Beatles
Study highlights different models for classifying plants in North America in the eighteenth century
Las prácticas médicas y la biología como ciencia
Las revistas de la medicina social latinoamericana, 1970-1980
Applying a southern solvent
La ética y la medicina social. La perspectiva de Michel Foucault
Medicine and healing in the colonial Caribbean