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<\/a>Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711 – 1788) was an Italian physicist and academic. She received a doctoral degree from the\u00a0University of Bologna\u00a0in 1732, being the first woman to be offered an official teaching position at a university in Europe. This special issue\u00a0features two articles on\u00a0\u00a0two female figures, Helena Antipoff, one of the pioneers in the field\u00a0of special education in Brazil and Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya, mathematician\u00a0and\u00a0historian specialized in the\u00a0history of mathematics.<\/p>\n Two studies provide an overview of the\u00a0current stage of research regarding women in Computing Science and in the history of modern logic. Finally, the dossier also features a report on a school teaching project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read about women in Science in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/strong><\/p>\n History of women in science \u2013 in pictures<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 To celebrate the International\u2019s Women\u2019s Day, The Guardian newspaper published a collection of photos of women in science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Zika and Aedes aegypti: new and old challenges<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct.\/Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.<\/p>\n Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation Research Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Preference will be given to projects that engage specifically with the history of women physicians, other health workers, or medical scientists.<\/p>\n Zika virus and rubella: similarities and differences<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Researcher Ilana L\u00f6wy, from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche M\u00e9dicale Paris, traces a parallel between the current zika epidemics in Brazil and past rubella outbreaks.<\/p>\n Una perspectiva feminista de la historia de la medicina<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Entrevista con la investigadora Teresa Ortiz-G\u00f3mez sobre los aportes del feminismo a la historia de la medicina.<\/p>\n Lopes, Maria Margaret.\u00a0Proemin\u00eancia na m\u00eddia, reputa\u00e7\u00e3o em ci\u00eancias: a constru\u00e7\u00e3o de uma feminista paradigm\u00e1tica e cientista normal no Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2008, vol.15.<\/p>\n
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