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DYNAMIS Volumen 45 (1) — 2025 SUMARIO DOSSIER: Disease Landscapes Beyond the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic (1889-1960s) Guest editors: Francisco Javier Martínez y Matheus Duarte da Silva Disease landscapes beyond the “Spanish flu” pandemic: temporal patterns, re-centered narratives (1889-1970s) Francisco Javier Martínez y Matheus Duarte da Silva By the rivers of Babylon: 1889-cholera outbreak in Iraq, production of medical knowledge and construction of scientific periphery Neta Talmud Inventing aerosols: Auguste Trillat (1861-1944) and the medical meteorology of influenza Etienne Aucouturier Devil’s choice: Ricardo Jorge, the ‘Spanish flu’ and the pneumonization of plague Francisco Javier Martínez Towards a complex ecology: an essay on plague history in Brazil (1890s-1970s) Matheus Duarte da Silva ARTÍCULOS Salud y desequilibrios en la centuria de las Luces: hospitales y médicos en Cádiz a t...

Today, as we navigate increasingly polarized discussions about science’s role in society, the scientific community must address the complicated history of scientific triumphalism. The long twentieth century undeniably saw science transform societies and deliver significant improvements in human welfare. This success story has fostered a pervasive belief that every question and problem can be solved through the continued expansion of scientific knowledge.  Recent developments have cast doubt on the validity of this narrative. Looming environmental crises have prompted critical questions about whether science has truly led to unambiguous progress. While ongoing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence exemplify scientific achievement, they also raise serious concerns about broader societal implications. At the same time, the authority of scientific discourse is being challenged by alternative frameworks. From one perspective, science denialism and pseudoscience have eroded public tru...

Donostia/San Sebastian (Spain), 23-24 October 2025   In his 1999 Rothschild lecture, Ian Hacking (1936-2023) tried to clarify one of his historico-philosophical programs,  historical ontology , and its relation to the then already established  historical epistemology  or what he preferred to call  historical meta-epistemology . This project was indeed deeply related to his overall contributions to the history and philosophy of science: (i) the “new experimentalism” approach to the sciences (Hacking 1983; Ackermann 1989) or, more generally, the practice turn (Pickering 1992; Soler et. al. 2014); (ii) the “styles project”, which evolved from scientific “styles of scientific reasoning” (Hacking 1982, 1994, 2009) to “styles of thinking & doing” as “ways of finding out” in the sciences (Hacking 2012, 2015); or (iii) the approach to biosocial sciences and mental illnesses through notions such as “making up people” and the “looping effect” (Hacking 1990, 1995, 1998...

A conference taking place on Tuesday 18 November 2025 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1 5YAG, London. 9.30 am – 5.00 pm   Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2025   March 2025 began the 80th anniversary year of the election of the first two female Fellows of the Royal Society – Kathleen Lonsdale and Marjory Stephenson. This anniversary year is being marked by a series of events looking at the past, present, and future of women in the scientific community. These will include a one-day history of science conference on 18 November 2025 and a two-day contemporary event in early 2026.   For the historical section of this activity in November, we are interested in new research that reflects on contributions, exclusions and collaborations between women collectors, researchers and illustrators from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. We envisage a half-day on earlier periods, followed by a half-day on nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists tha...