The yellow fever in the US imaginary, 1821-1848

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.

A morphology of ‘quilombos’ in the Americas, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries

Funded PhD Studentship Opportunities in Medical Humanities at Newcastle University

Jean Gayon: historian and philosopher of biology

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

2019 DHST prize for young scholars

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.

Conferencia Internacional: Red SciELO 20 Años

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

Submissions open for the 2019 IUHPST Essay Prize

Ciencia, tecnología, saberes locales e imperio en el mundo Atlántico, siglos XV-XVII

Digitised maps of the Americas

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

Doctor Chernoviz and the popularization of medicine