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History of medicine in the United States

On the 4th of July, we selected articles and blog posts that show the United States’ contribution to the history of medicine. Topics include discussions about eugenics, race, mental health, yellow fever, programs of the Rockefeller Foundation, and interviews with prominent scholars.

La popularización de la ciencia en Latinoamérica: heterogeneidad, creatividad, solidaridad e inclusión

En los próximos días, Fiocruz recibirá investigadores de varios países de América Latina para la 18ª edición del Congreso de la Red de Popularización de la Ciencia y la Tecnología de América Latina y el Caribe. Entrevistamos a Ma de Lourdes Patiño Barba, directora ejecutiva de RedPop sobre, entre otros temas, las características del campo en América Latina y cómo la divulgación científica puede contribuir a la lucha contra la desinformación.

Call for Applicants: Incorporating Latin America and the Caribbean into Teaching in Environmental History

RECSLAC’s (Red de Ciencias y Saberes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Network on Sciences and Knowledges in Latin American and the Caribbean) seeks participants from diverse backgrounds who are interested in learning more about Latin American history of science and the environment. The workshop will be held just before the American Society of Environmental History conference in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024.

The next International Congress of History of Science will be held in New Zeland in 2025

The conference theme will be Peoples, Places, Exchanges and circulation. This is the main international congress in the field of History of Science and Technology. Please register your interest here!

International agencies in Brazilian favelas in the 1960s

Documents from the Anthony Leeds archive at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz were used to analyze the work of three international agencies in the favelas and their conceptions of development.

Demoniac agitation

This article shows that the growth of radical actions, such as the assassination of French President Sadi Carnot in 1894, brought anarchism to the center of the criminological debates in Europe.