Current and former students of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz interviewed German historian Stefan Rinke, of the Freie Universität Berlin, who specializes in examining the historical development of Latin America as it fits into the international context. Rinke's work uses dimensions such as economic and diplomatic relations, migratory flows, and ethnic conflict as tools in his analyses of the networks of interdependence that have tied Latin America to Europe and the USA. His lens goes beyond the Latin American continent to approach globalization as a historical process, with national and regional contexts placed within a general framework.
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December 2011
Recent research in the history of science and the sociology of knowledge, where science is understood as knowledge in circulation, has called attention to the importance of studying the translation of scientific works, which involves not only the social circumstances of their production but also how these works are received. The testimony presented here was given by the translators of the Portuguese version of Ludwik Fleck's Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache (Genesis and development of a scientific fact), a work that probably influenced Thomas Kuhn's now classic The structure of scientific revolutions. Our goal is to offer resources for understanding Fleck's importance in Brazilian studies on the circulation of scientific knowledge.
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