Interview: ilana löwy

• Autor(a) principal: Ilana Löwy
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Ana Carolina Vimiero Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2019.i6.09; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/44043; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6963-0578; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-6970
• topic: Ilana Löwy; Historiografia; Ciência - História

Ilana Löwy (née Zelmanowicz), born in Łódź, Poland, is a biologist, historian of biomedical sciences and a feminist. She is “directrice de recherche” (senior researcher) at an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research unit CERMES-3 (Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société, Inserm-CNRS-EHESS), Paris, France. She is also affiliated with other institutions, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, and the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University and is an associated researcher of Casa Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro. Ilana Löwy holds a BSc and MSc degrees in microbiology and biochemistry from Tel Aviv University, and a doctorate in immunology from Paris VII University. She then retrained as a historian of science. She had studied Ludwik Fleck’s epistemology, history of bacteriology, immunology tropical medicine and cancer, women’s reproductive health, and more recently, congenital disorders and prenatal diagnosis. Interviewed by Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes in May 2019.