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.
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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.
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