No 86

An African History of Knowledge and Science beyond Academic Conventions

• Tilman Musch
• Dida Badi
• Emmanuel Ngue Um
• Yacouba Banhoro
• Sani Ibrahim
• Mahuma Abaliy Sédiké

The elderly man draws a circle in the sand of the Sahara Desert. Inside it he places a dot; beside it he draws a vertical line. These, he explains, are the letters “s” and “n” of the Tifinagh a...

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No 85

Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

• Alfred Freeborn
• Michael Winter
• Pascal Belouin
• Kim Pham
• Elizabeth Hughes
• Hanna Lucia Worliczek
• Steffen Hennicke
• Lara Keuck
• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

As of 2023 there are roughly 4,000 English-language oral history interviews with biomedical scientists, doctors, nurses, patients, and hospital administrators available online. More or less the...

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