Cuadernos Medico Sociales from Rosario, Argentina, and other Latin American social medicine journals from the 1970s and 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s, a series of journals were founded to disseminate ideas from Latin American social medicine in various countries across the continent, during the early stage of a movement that would later become institutionalized in Brazil under the name "collective medicine." In this article, we look at the principal characteristics of those endeavors: Revista Centroamericana de Ciencias de la Salud, Saude em Debate, Salud Problema, Revista Latinoamericana de Salud and Cuadernos Medico Sociales. We focus in particular on Cuadernos Medico Sociales, published in Rosario, Argentina. We analyze the conditions under which this publication emerged, the editorial processes it followed, and the central role played by Carlos Bloch, its founder and managing editor.