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.

Call for thematic dossiers: HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology

The editors of HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology, are receiving proposals for two thematic issues to be published in 2025. Proposals might deal with both established and emerging areas of scholarship.

Making and doing transformations

CThe 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), to be held in Amsterdam between July 16th-19th, is open for abstracts. The conference theme is “Making and doing transformations.” The event aims to discuss how we can become part of making and contributing to transformations through mobilizing science and technology studies (STS).

Human sciences and the anthropocene

This article, published in the 2023 volume of HCS-Manguinhos, discusses how the human sciences, especially historiography, can contribute to the Anthropocene debate.