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On the 4th of July, we selected articles and blog posts that show the United States’ contribution to the history of medicine. Topics include discussions about eugenics, race, mental health, yellow fever, programs of the Rockefeller Foundation, and interviews with prominent\u00a0<\/span>scholars<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The United States in HCS-Manguinhos:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Eugenics and sterilization in the United States, 1920 \u2013 1950<\/a>\u00a0Alexandra Minna Stern and her team at the University of Michigan reviews medical records to investigate ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n Eugenics and sterilization in the United States<\/a>\u00a0In an interview to HCS-Manguinhos, Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan, talks about her initial findings related to ethnic and gender bias in sterilization policies.<\/p>\n On the history of medicine in the United States<\/a>\u00a0In this interview, published in HCS-Manguinhos, Charles Rosenberg, professor of the history of science at Harvard University offers reflections and considerations on the history of medicine and public health.<\/p>\n The rise of psychoanalysis in US hospitals, 1903-1937<\/a>\u00a0This article explores the work of William Alanson White, who was superintendent of St. Elizabeths, the largest hospital in the United States between 1903 and 1937, and had a significant impact on the practice of the psychoanalytic method in the hospital setting in the country. White considered psychoanalysis important for healing both the individual as well as society.<\/p>\n The adaptation of evolutionary thinking in its public circulation<\/a>\u00a0This article analyzes the case of \u201cEvolution: a Journal of Nature (1927-1938)\u201d. The aim of this publication was to promote evolutionary thinking in a specific context: the controversy over teaching evolution in schools in the United States in the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n Past responses to mental health<\/a>\u00a0This NLM exhibition explores 200 years of mental health treatment in the United States, from asylums prison-like to a more inclusive treatment.<\/p>\n Race in science: a paradoxal idea<\/a>\u00a0Evelynn Hammonds, Chair of the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, presents some of the most important works and approaches that marked the historiography of race, specially in the United States.<\/p>\n The yellow fever in the US imaginary, 1821-1848<\/a>\u00a0While 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.<\/p>\n Science and gender, feminism and history of science: an interview with Evelyn Fox Keller<\/a>\u00a0This interview covers the trajectory of Evelyn Fox Keller, emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller reflects on her career and the challenges she had to overcome to push back the frontiers of science with her pioneering work on language, gender, and science, which has been very influential in changing views in the history of science.<\/p>\n Los proyectos de investigaci\u00f3n nutricional de la Fundaci\u00f3n Rockefeller en M\u00e9xico<\/a>\u00a0Durante 1945, un oficial de la \u201cInternational Health Division\u201d de la Fundaci\u00f3n Rockefeller fue enviado a M\u00e9xico para hacer varios viajes de exploraci\u00f3n con el objeto de encontrar sitios id\u00f3neos para ampliar los proyectos de investigaci\u00f3n nutricional que la fundaci\u00f3n filantr\u00f3pica ten\u00eda en el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n Research Stipend Program: Rockefeller Archive Center<\/a>\u00a0The research stipends are designed to support research by serious scholars in the collections located at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Many of the collections of the Rockefeller Archive Center are of great interest to Brazilian researchers.<\/p>\n Report of the medical commission to Brazil: Rockefeller Foundation, 1916<\/a>\u00a0This 1916 report features a comprehensive analysis of education in Brazil with a special focus on the medical profession.<\/p>\n Race and the Rockefeller Foundation<\/a>\u00a0From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica. This paper explores the role that race played in it.<\/p>\n The history of nursing through postcards<\/a>\u00a0This online exhibition available at the website of the National Library of Medicine includes over 2,500 postcards about the profession of nursing during the 20th century.<\/p>\n Agricultural programs in Mexico and India<\/a>\u00a0In her research report, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard concentrates on different aspects of the RF\u2019s activities in this arena. Photography and History of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0August 19th, World Photography Day. A selection of articles and blog posts on photography from the history of medicine.<\/p>\n \u00a0Media, politics and health: An Interview with Daniel Hallin<\/a>\u00a0In the book Making Health Public, published in 2016, political communication scholar Daniel Hallin and Anthropologist Charles Briggs examine news coverage of health issues in the United States. In this interview, Hallin compares the media coverage of Covid-19 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, talks about the possible consequences of this crisis for the upcoming US presidential elections and highlights some similarities between the fields of Communication and Medical Humanities.<\/p>\n La pandemia: \u00bfEl acto final de Donald Trump?<\/a>\u00a0\u201cDe nuevo, se nota el genio pol\u00edtico de Trump \u2013 o de sus asesores. El sentimiento anti-Trump en este pa\u00eds es tan fuerte que anula todo razonamiento fr\u00edo de la situaci\u00f3n actual.\u201d Eric Carter, Profesor en el Macalester College hace una reflexi\u00f3n sobre la actuaci\u00f3n del presidente de Estados Unidos en la pandemia.<\/p>\n
\nScientific Partnerships in Brazil and the Malaria Service of the Northeast<\/a>\u00a0Gabriel Lopes, postdoctoral researcher at Fiocruz, presents how Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s International Health Division collaborated closely with Brazilian entomologists in the fight against malaria in Brazil.<\/p>\n