The British Society for the History of Science is delighted to announce Luísa Reis Castro (Dornsife) as winner of the Singer Prize 2022. The prize of £500 is awarded every two years to writers of essays outstanding in research, novelty and expression, based on original research into any aspect of the history of science, technology or medicine. The prize is intended for recent entrants into the profession.

Luísa Reis Castro

Yellow Fever Campaigns and their Afterlives

Mosquitoes, Race, and Politics in Brazilian Science

Luísa’s essay, ‘Yellow Fever Campaigns and their Afterlives. Mosquitoes, Race, and Politics in Brazilian Science’, explores the social, cultural, and political dimensions of the combat against the Yellow Fever in Brazil in the early 20th century. Discussing the political campaigns against the Yellow Fever during the 20th century, the essay offers an impressive chronic of a case of racial bias and political instrumentalisation in the history of medicine.

The panel was impressed by the ambition of the paper’s scope, and by the rigour of its archival underpinnings. It will make an important contribution to the fields of disease, race and history of science in general.