Lu Chen On 4-5 September 2025, the “Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health after WWII” project funded by the Wellcome Trust celebrated its successful conclusion with a conference at Keynes Library of Birkbeck college, University of London. The conference brought together scholars from across the globe to celebrate and reflect on ground breaking […]
Liang Wan On a February afternoon in 2025, the midday sun burned over Stone Town as I stepped into the outpatient wing of Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar’s largest and oldest medical facility. This visit formed part of my doctoral research on the transnational circulation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), particularly acupuncture, as a component of […]
Sarah Howard Held in Prague from 25–28 June, the biannual ECAS event was a fantastic conference, which ran smoothly and efficiently, and hosted a huge range of interdisciplinary panels, keynotes, book launches and roundtables, as well as a panoply of artistic and cultural programming. This short report will focus on the panel most pertinent to […]
Lu Chen l.chen7@exeter.ac.uk With the support of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, I had the unique opportunity to conduct research at three prestigious institutions: the Rockefeller Foundation Archive, Manuscripts & Archives at Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University, and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. This archival work was undertaken as […]
Liang Wan On 11 January 2025, the National Acupuncture Anaesthesia Clinical Research Alliance (国家针刺麻醉临床研究联盟) was officially launched in Shanghai, bringing together representatives from 68 medical institutions across China [figures 1]. The initiative aimed to accelerate the nationwide adoption of “modern acupuncture anaesthesia,” a reportedly TCM-Western integrative approach focused on “preoperative assessment, combined acupuncture-drug anaesthesia, and […]
Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez Díaz (HSS Merida Local Arrangements Committee) The History of Science Society, for the first time in its one hundred years of existence, met in a Latin American country on November 7-10. The colonial city of Mérida (funded in 1542), in the Mexican state of Yucatán, received five hundred historians of […]
Sarah Howard Many months of planning and organising came to fruition when an event co-organised by Connecting Three Worlds – The Public Good, Planning & Internationalism in African Health – finally took place in South Africa. An oral history symposium that brought together senior African health professionals and an inter-disciplinary group of academic researchers, the […]
An Ecuadorian snapshot of women’s visual representation at the time of the 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) Conference Andrea Espinoza Carvajal At the same time the 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) Conference took place in Mexico City (between June 19 and July 2), Ecuador was electing that year’s Miss Ecuador. Newspapers around the country covered […]
Andrea Espinoza Carvajal Growing up in Ecuador, the saying: Ecuador es un país sin memoria [Ecuador is a country with no memory] was ubiquitous. It was present at home and school, revived in every national election and crisis and served as a blank criticism and explanation of voting patterns and political trends. “Having no memory” […]
Lu Chen A ground-breaking conference organized by the Wellcome Trust funded project “Connecting three worlds: socialism, medicine and global health after WW2” concluded 16 June 2023. It shed new light on the history of global health and the influence of socialism on healthcare systems. The conference brought together nearly 20 scholars from various regions of […]
