December 2018
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties.Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940.
The book, published by UCL Press in October 2018, was edited by Robert Bud (Science Museum in London), Paul Greenhalgh (University of East Anglia), Frank James (University College London) and Morag Shiach (Queen Mary University of London). The book is available for free download!
UCL Press, October, 2018.
Related articles in HCS-Manguinhos:
Art in mental health care – This paper explores the experience of art at the Juliano Moreira Colony in the 1950s.
Las cartas de los locos que se quedaron guardadas en el manicomio – Un grupo de psiquiatras reúne en un libro las misivas conservadas en el archivo de la Casa de Dementes de Santa Isabel de Leganés.
Between art and information: communicating world health, 1948–70 – This paper published in the Journal of Global History examines the World Health Organization’s emergent attitudes to public information.
Representaciones sobre la fiebre amarilla y el cólera – Los sentidos y actitudes que se asociaban con las epidemias que la ciudad de Buenos Aires atravesó entre 1867 y 1871.
