July 2015
The workshop Tropical Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective will be webcasted live. The event is hosted by Fiocruz on 1-3 July.
The workshop is part of the project Policies and Practices of Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective following the partnership between the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz) and the University of York sponsored by the British Academy. The event is one of a series of international workshops that seek to discuss findings and practices related to the history of health and tropical medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 18th century until today.
The three-day workshop seeks to discuss different aspects related to diseases like malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis mansoni, yellow fever and other that have affected the regional population in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The workshop will focus on clinical, laboratorial and epidemiological cases, as well as the institutional methods adopted to deal with such diseases. During the event, professionals from multidisciplinary fields from the Americas and Europe will discuss issues related to the history and properness of the concept known as tropical medicine.
To view the live webcasting, click here.
See the workshop agenda (in Portuguese).
Source: Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
Read related articles on HCS-Manguinhos:
Tropical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries. Editor’s note of HCS-Manguinhos (vol.21, no.2, Apr./Jun. 2014) by Jaime Benchimol.
Railroads, disease, and tropical medicine in Brazil under the First Republic. Article by Jaime Larry Benchimol and André Felipe Cândido da Silva (Sept. 2008, vol.15, no.3)
On malaria:
Malaria as a disease and as a cultural perspective in Carlos Chagas’ and Mário de Andrade’s travels to the Amazon. Article by Nisia Trindade Lima and André Botelho. (v.20, n.3, jul.-set 2013).
Dossier Malaria (Apr/ Jun 2011).
On Chagas disease:
Carlos Chagas and the debates and controversies surrounding the ‘disease of Brazil’ (1909-1923). Article by Simone Petraglia Kropf. (vol.16, suppl.1, Jul 2009).
The scientific journey taken by Neiva and Penna: a blueprint for studies of diseases from the Brazilian hinterland. Article by Joffre Marcondes de Rezende (vol.16, supl.1, Jul 2009).
In the heart of Brazil, a healthy capital – the participation of doctors and sanitarists in the construction of Brasília (1956-1960). Article by Tamara Rangel Vieira (vol.16, supl.1, 2009).
The reception by French physicians of Chagas’ discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and American trypanosomiasis (1909-1925). Article by Gabriel Gachelin and Annick Opinel (vol.16, supl.1, Jul 2009).
The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease (1908-1909): tropical medicine in Brazil. Article by Simone Petraglia Kropf e Magali Romero Sá (vol.16, supl.1, Jul 2009).
