Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and the Brazilian eugenics movement

It shows how Brazilian eugenicists reconfigured their practices after the Second World War and refused the idea that Brazilian eugenics would have been “soft” and dissociated from scientific racism.

27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

The Congress will be held as a hybrid in-person and online event at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus, New Zealand, in June-July 2025.

The sustainable management of cultural heritage

This work focuses on the Manguinhos Historical Architectural Site at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, analyzing the meaning of social participation in the recognition, appropriation, preservation, and enhancement of cultural heritage.

El freudomarxismo en España, 1975-1978

El trabajo de Miguel Huertas-Maestro analiza la pertinencia del término “freudomarxismo”, sus diferencias con un psicoanálisis militante argentino influyente en corrientes sociales del psicoanálisis en España, y hace una revisión histórica del movimiento.

La papa en la cordillera de los Andes

Este artículo de la antropóloga Laura Estupiñán presenta los hallazgos arqueológicos sobre la papa en la cordillera de los Andes y retoma los usos, significados y formas productivas nativas del alimento.

Heritage, territory and memory at Fiocruz headquarters

The relationship between territory, memory, and heritage on the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s headquarters campus and its surroundings is analyzed in the second supplement of volume 30 of HCSM.

Élites letradas y cultura científica en Bolivia, 1876-1879

Este artículo analiza la formación de una cultura científica entre los intelectuales de La Paz (Bolivia) durante los años previos a la guerra del Pacífico, partiendo del estudio de grandes periódicos locales.

The story of aspirin

This National Library of Medicine exhibition traces the impact of aspirin from its ancient precursors, through world wars, to modern medicine in this curated collection, with selections in multiple languages.

A poster as a place of memory

This articles analyses posters of educational campaigns against Hansen’s disease in the second half of the 20 Century in the state of São Paulo.

The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919

See the review written by María-Isabel Porras of the book Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919, Edited by Guy Beiner.