The essay argues that doctors and other health practitioners put a “silent racism” into practice in their reports on their interactions with indigenous communities and healers.

This Digital Collection of the National Library of Medicine includes a range of documents and reports on the efforts of government, military personnel, health professionals, and scientists on the home front and overseas during WWII.

This paper argues that pregnancy and childbirth were resignified, including the need for women to internalize the desire and obligation to be healthy during pregnancy and produce healthy children.

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophe on a global scale. This paper investigates the epidemic in Coimbra, Portugal, using information found in the pages of a local newspaper.

Although Gini is best remembered today as a statistician and demographer, the paper argues that his interest in population statistics was entirely subordinated to his passion for eugenics.

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its special issue “Theses on the Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Reappraisal of the Origins of Modern Science”.

Una breve entrevista con la historiadora Graciela Queirolo, autora del libro “Mujeres en las oficinas: Trabajo género y clase en el sector administrativo (Buenos Aires, 1910-1950)”. El libro analiza la experiencia profesional de dactilógrafas, taquígrafas-dactilógrafas y secretarias, cuya emergencia cambió la fisonomía de la ciudad, de los lugares de trabajo y de la organización familiar.

It discusses the use of synthetic oxytocin to facilitate the progress of labour and birth in the late 1950s, based on two Brazilian journals of obstetrics.

This workshop is organized by a new network of scholars and invite those interested in thinking critically about the history of concepts and practices now closely associated with accountability in health care.

It examines the political dimension of processes of climate knowledge production.