This article offers a panoramic vision of the development of international health in Latin
America during the late 1940s and the 1950s, when a series of bilateral and multilateral …

Europeans who wrote about Brazil during the colonial period (1500–1822) usually depicted
the country as a healthy Eden and an exception to the “torrid zone.” For more than three …

Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas is an ambitious book that links early twentieth-
century public health initiatives to changing intellectual understandings of race, culture, and …

The centennial celebration of the New Goa Medical-surgical School, held in 1942, glorified
the institution's contribution to the consolidation of the Portuguese Empire in Africa. I observe …

For a literature that scarcely existed twenty-five years ago, the historiography of colonial
science and medicine has flourished in the intervening period. As the field of postcolonial …

For a religious culture that celebrates its “African purity,” Candomblé is also remarkable for
the emergence of a matriarchal priesthood without precedent in Nigeria. Given his stress on …

This paper attempts to provide a general overview about the way in which Brazilian
medicine and physical anthropology gave a naturalistic approach to the idea of race and to …

The papers in this special issue were prepared and discussed before the tragic covid-19
pandemic. However, their findings and discussions are equally relevant to the moment we …

O artigo trata da expedição que os pesquisadores do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de
Hamburgo, Gustav Giemsa e Ernst Nauck, fizeram à região de colonização alemã no …

In this essay we look at a group of physicians whose approach to disease reflects something
of the evolution of tropical medicine in the Americas over the course of several important …