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Health and institutions
How do institutions learn when health crises exceed protocols, routines and ready-made categories?
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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 This page presents questions, contexts and trajectories — not unpublished originals.
Three research fronts
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Science and classification
How does a virus collected in the Amazon become comparable, nameable and recognisable across international scientific networks?
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Environment and infrastructure
Where does the forest end when ecology, surveillance and public-health infrastructure begin producing evidence together?
In circulation
May 2026 · UCL Institute of the Americas
Zika, risk and medical knowledge
A presentation on how guidelines, risk and public responsibility were produced during Brazil’s Zika epidemic.
22–25 Oct 2026 · SHOT · Johns Hopkins
The Environments of Technology
An accepted session co-organised and commented by Maria Carolina Fóscolo on infrastructure, materiality, evidence and expertise.
31 Mar–3 Apr 2027 · ASEH · Richmond
Where Does the Forest End?
An accepted presentation on yellow fever, nonhuman sentinels and public-health infrastructure in Brazil.
From research to the reader
Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge already turns part of these questions into a public reading form: historical research, fragments, poems and images placed side by side.
The site presents questions, contexts, methods and routes of circulation. Submitted articles, manuscripts and unpublished originals remain off the site.
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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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Caderno Fóscolo
Essays, notes and editorial choices. A space for what happens between research, writing and the page.
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Maria Carolina Fóscolo
Author, editor and undergraduate History student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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