The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic
history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the …

As Britain's imperial and colonial ambitions intensified toward the end of the nineteenth
century, the preservation of white European health in tropical climates became an …

Twenty-four centuries have passed since the doctrine of AirsWaters Places was articulated
in the Hippocratic corpus, promoting a mutually constitutive vision of humankind and climate …

ABSTRACT In Salvador-Bahia, many Black lesbians are deeply concerned about how
gynecologists dismiss or demean their sexuality, which often leads to prolonged lapses in …

This article proposes a global history of hookworm disease based on the main scientific
publications on hookworm disease (ankylostomiasis) in the late nineteenth and early …

In recent years, Latin American history has been awash in an exciting wave of scholarship
on the history of science and medicine. Historians are exploring Latin American reactions to …

In a paper presented to the Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana
on December 14, 1923, Dr. Jorge LeRoy y Cassá identified the “unsanitary immigration” to …

Circa 1900 Uruguayan medical authorities prided themselves on their country's health
achievement: the lowest recorded infant mortality rate in Latin America and one of the lowest …

In his 1927 annual report to the Pernambucan state legislature, Governor Estacio de
Albuquerque Coimbra wrote that “the economic, intellectual, moral and civic value of the …

This article examines the intellectual origins and meaning of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande.
It argues that Freyre's attack on a racial hierarchy of cultural value, and on ideas of racial …