Having as a framework the tragic presence of covid-19, historians from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil reflect in this text on the context of the pandemic as well as its relationship with institutional sanitary precariousness, ...

This article examines the multiple actors and varied strategies that contributed to turn smallpox vaccination into a central – albeit inconsistent – practice in Mexico City between 1803, when the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine ...

Las reformas y las innovaciones por las que atravesaron las instituciones hospitalarias durante el transcurso de la primera mitad del siglo pasado fueron empresas ampliamente compartidas en el ámbito internacional. El ...

The Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America intensified deep social inequalities and revealed inadequate official responses and geopolitical disparities. The health crisis sparked debates on disease, prevention, and healthcare ...

"Este artículo tiene como propósito analizar la coexistencia de prácticas, ofertas médicas y curativas populares y ofciales en México durante la primera década del periodo posrevolucionario (1920-1930) a través del estudio ...

"Este artículo presenta un breve balance histórico de las diversas acciones que despertó la lucha contra la tuberculosis entre 1939, cuando se creó el Comité Nacional de Lucha contra la Tuberculosis, y el inicio de la ...

The study of the crucial interaction and collaboration between doc-tors, architects, and administrators to achieve the hospital reform undertaken in Mexico in the 1940s is the subject of this article. The way this collaboration ...

Health education and propaganda acquired importance during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexico City, as physicians, hygienists, and schoolteachers attempted to teach the principles of public health to a ...

Este artículo estudia las diferentes propuestas y estrategias para prevenir los contagios de la tuberculosis pulmonar implementadas en la Ciudad de México a partir de la década de 1920, al comenzar la primera campaña de ...