While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz brought significant advantages, public health concerns around yellow fever produced fascination and fear among US audiences.

20 November 2018 TheBlack Consciousness Day is held every November 20th to remember the death of Zumbi dos Palmares, one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery. Today, we highlight the paper  A morphology of ‘quilombos’ in the Americas, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries (available in Portuguese in HCS-Manguinhos vol.19  supl.1 Dec. 2012). The...

November, 2018 American Association for the History of Science Newcastle University hosts a flourishing multidisciplinary medical humanities research network, involving participants from History; English Literature; Fine Arts; Creative Arts; Modern Languages; Archaeology; Classics; Music Studies; Media, Culture and Heritage; Sociology; Health and Society;...

Gayon was a crucial contribution to the understanding of the development and conceptual structure of the theory of natural selection.

Up to three awards for recent Ph.D. historians of science and technology will be awarded to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 1 September 2016 and 1 September 2018.

En 2018 el Programa SciELO celebra 20 años de operación en pleno proceso de alineamiento con los avances de la ciencia abierta.

September 2018 The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST) invites submissions for the 2019 IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science. This prize competition, planned to continue on a biennial basis, seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science as an integrated...

Agosto 2018 Historia Crítica, publicación de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), anuncia que recibirá artículos para el dossier “Ciencia, tecnología, saberes locales e imperio en el mundo Atlántico, siglos XV-XVII”. Editores invitados Mauricio Nieto Olarte (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) y Antonio...

A fascinating sampling of maps depicting places in the Americas is available online in the British Library website.

The popular medicine dictionary, written by Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz (1812 – 1881), the Polish physician and publisher who consolidated his career  in  Brazil,  was a bestseller. The dictionary was published in six editions between 1842 and 1890, aiming mainly at a non- specialized audience. The paper The scientific authorship of Doctor Chernoviz,...