Forty-fourth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology: 'Science, Technology, and Medicine between the Global and the Local,' Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24-29 July 2017

摘要

The forty-fourth ICOHTEC symposium took place in Rio de Janeiro as part of the twenty-fifth International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST). Traditionally, the two organizations meet together every four years. The ICOHTEC theme this year was "Science, Technology, and Medicine between the Global and the Local." As the society of professional historians, ICOHTEC contributed more in terms of scholarship, originality of the themes proposed, and number of sessions and participants. Fifty-one research results were presented in various papers of the following thirteen ICOHTEC panels.