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Centauros<\/a> is an international English language journal of the history of science and its cultural aspects. It was started in 1950 and\u00a0is the official journal of the\u00a0European Society for the History of Science.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Its current issue (Volume 62,\u00a0<\/span>Issue 2) presents the dossier:\u00a0Histories of epidemics in the time of COVID\u201019,<\/a>\u00a0available in free access for six months.<\/div>\n
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It\u00a0\u00a0provides broad historical insight into COVID-19, showing that epidemics need to be studied within their broader cultural, political, scientific, and geographic contexts.<\/div>\n
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In the article\u00a0How to have narrative\u2010flipping history in a pandemic: Views of\/from Latin America<\/a>,\u00a0Historian Anne-Emanuelle Birn, a member of HCSM\u2019s Scientific Editorial Board,<\/div>\n
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seeks to elucidate how and why Latin America is neither anecdotal nor peripheral to pandemic preoccupations.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The article\u00a0first examines\u00a0past epidemics\u00a0 in the light of imperialism. Next, it traces how the impetus for international health cooperation informed efforts elsewhere. Finally, it\u00a0calls attention to the fundamental need for incorporating histories of and from Latin America.<\/div>\n
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Read in Manguinhos:<\/div>\n
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Classy, cutting-edge and cosmopolitan<\/a>\u00a0– Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Professor of Critical Development Studies and Global Health at the University of Toronto, explains the descriptors that comes to her mind when she thinks of our journal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n