Independent publishing · Belo Horizonte

Maria Carolina
Fóscolo

Author, editor and undergraduate History student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Her research brings together the history of health, organisational studies, memory and oral history. From 2023 to 2026, she undertook undergraduate research at FACE/UFMG on Hospital Eduardo de Menezes and institutional responses to health crises.

She founded Fóscolo & Company Edições and wrote Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge. In Todos ou nenhum? — Book I, poetry and literary chronicles bring matter, bodies and knowledge into conversation.

Her work also includes teacher training, cultural mediation and public communication of research.

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Fields of work

Health and institutions

History of health, institutional memory, crises, archives and oral history.

Science and knowledge

Classification, circulation of evidence, laboratories and scientific infrastructures.

Public history and form

Cultural mediation, teaching, editorial writing and ways of moving research beyond the university.

Research in circulation

Recent presentations and projects include UCL Institute of the Americas, SHOT and ASEH, connecting health, science, environment and public history.

Research & circulation
Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge

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Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge

Research, fragments and images from Brazil

Historical research, poems and images meet in a book about care, risk and knowledge. How do people and institutions carry on when protocols can no longer contain experience?

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Todos ou nenhum?

In preparation

Todos ou nenhum?

Book I · A matéria aprende a respirar

An aircraft goes around. Glass retains stresses after the fire. A sheet bends before becoming a book. Thirteen poems and three literary chronicles explore what changes when the conditions for continuing change.

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Fóscolo & Company

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Research & circulation

Questions still in motion.

Fóscolo & Company books grow from a wider field of research, writing and public history. This page presents questions, contexts and trajectories — not unpublished originals.

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Published

Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge

Historical research, poems and images meet in a book about care, risk and knowledge. How do people and institutions carry on when protocols can no longer contain experience?

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Journal

Caderno Fóscolo

Essays, notes and editorial choices. A space for what happens between research, writing and the page.

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