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.