ReseñasJosep M. Comelles y Enrique Perdiguero-Gil, coords. Educación, comunicación y salud. Perspectivas desde las ciencias humanas y sociales. Tarragona, Publicacions URV; 2017, 344 p. ISBN-13 (15) 978-84-8424-518-6.1Universidad de MedellínEl libro que reseñamos está estructurado por una presentación inicial, a cargo de los coordinadores del proyecto editorial Enrique Perdiguero...
ReseñasMaría Isabel Porras Gallo, María José Báguena Cervellera, Mariano Ayarzagúena Sanz y Noelia María Martín Espinosa, coords. La erradicación y el control de las enfermedades infecciosas. Madrid: Libros de la Catarata; 2018, 272 p. ISBN: 978-84-9097-201-4. €18.1Profesor emérito Escuela Nacional de SanidadEl punto de inflexión de la evolución de las estrategias para el control...
ReseñasLino Camprubí Bueno. Los ingenieros de Franco. Ciencia, catolicismo y Guerra Fría en el Estado franquista. Barcelona: Crítica; 2017, 320 p. ISBN 9788416771752. €21,90.1Drexel University, PhiladelphiaThis is the most historically ambitious book written on Francoism and science and deserves wide readership. We knew already that the popular myth of a reactionary dictatorship...
This article analyzes changes made in the exhibition program of the London Natural History Museum (NHM) throughout the 1970s, moving from a discourse based on real specimens to one centered on audiovisual media, interactive devices, and highly structured scripts. We explore the difficult economic state of the United Kingdom at this time, which impacted on the funding for museums...
This article aims to provide an overall quantification of the purge of research staff of the Board for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research (JAE) conducted by the Franco Regime. To this end, the names of prewar researcher Contents staff were gathered from JAE payrolls immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and information on their employment in the postwar...
The Nutritional Transition describes the passage from a vegetarian, monotonous, local and inadequate diet to one based on the consumption of cereals, legumes, and potatoes but with a greater presence of meat, fruit, sugar and vegetable fats. This article, framed within the first stage of the nutritional transition, analyses the composition of the average diet in the city of Alcoy...
The objective of this article was to review influences on the development of nursing in Argentina. It takes as milestones two local congresses that put up for debate the problems of the discipline and possible solutions: the First Argentine Congress of Nursing in La Plata (1949) and the Fourth Argentine Congress of Nursing in Mendoza (1967). Over this time period, topics linked...
The aim of this paper was to highlight the role played by newspapers and other press media in the opposition to the consolidation of the medical profession in Buenos Aires in the 1890s. This investigation is based on the hypothesis that journalism was essential both for the accomplishment of the physicians' health project and for the fight of those who were against it. Newspaper...
This article explores the implementation of professional medicine in Chile in the second half of the 19th century. It focuses on lawsuits filed by certified physicians against men and women who did not have the official medical qualifications required by law to practice medicine. Based on these records, this study investigates the efforts made by professionals to legitimize the...
In the l970s, the Mexican government adopted air pollution policies and solutions recommended by international organizations and applied in highly industrialized countries. However, this move was accompanied by controversies on the legislative and administrative framework involving healthcare, air quality management, and industrial sectors, with a large part of anti-pollution...
Portugal did not participate in World War II but was one of the first countries in the world to receive penicillin for civilian use. The Portuguese Red Cross began to import the antibiotic from the United States of America in 1944 and appointed a controlling committee to oversee its distribution, due to the small amount available. In 1945, as world production increased...
This article is a case study of the scientific discussions on the birth of a zoological species that eventually came to be known as Arctocephalus philippii (Peters, 1866). It also examines the movement of the remains of a sea lion specimen from Chile to Germany and the discussions that arose in regard to its taxonomic definition. The paper argues that the material properties of...
This article provides the basis for further considerations on the overlap between different expressions of science, in particular psychotechnics, biotypology and eugenics, in Iberia. It sets the reception of and interest in these scientific undertakings within the specific context pertaining in both Iberian dictatorships and considers the importance of the culture of the...