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The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain
This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
Visions of Filth
This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito Pérez Galdós. Galdós’s treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault’s very specific conceptualisation of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyses how Galdós’s novels interacted with contemporary debates on poverty and deviancy – notably, discourses on hygiene, domesticity and philanthropy. It is proposed that Galdós’s view of marginal social groups was much more open-minded, shrewd and liberal than the often inflexible pronouncements made by contemporary professional voices.
Sex, Sin and Suffering
This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how such responses reflected and shaped social attitudes towards sexuality and social relationships of class, gender, generation and race.
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book examines the current scholarship and looks towards future directions across the field. The volume is divided into fourteen thematic chapters, which are split into two chronological sections 1500 – 1750 and 1750 to present day. Focusing on the history of sexuality and the body in the West but also interactions with a broader globe, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and disc...
Equal Access to healthcare in Europe
This volume grows out of the belief that diversity needs recognition and support from a favourable social environment. More precisely, the different members of diverse societies need recognition and support. This monograph is intended to provide a comparative perspective on the challenges faced in selected European countries (Croatia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia and the UK) with regard to equal access to healthcare and ways of handling them. The authors of the chapters comprising this volume, each within their specialty and in their own way, attempt to identify the different forms and dimensions in which we can be different and the barriers to our flourishing in, and with our differences.
Control and Resistance
This highly original book addresses the understudied connection between food and authoritarian control during the Franco regime.
Política, salud y enfermedad en España: entre el desarrollismo y la transición democrática.
Esta obra pretende aportar nuevas perspectivas en el conocimiento que teníamos de la gestión de la salud y la enfermedad en España en un amplio período de tiempo, que abarca desde los años veinte y treinta del siglo XX pasando por el franquismo, la década de los noventa del pasado siglo y llegando a la época actual. La situación ha cambiado notablemente y hoy tenemos una amplia historiografía sobre todos estos periodos. Algunos de los capítulos son el resultado de investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo en proyectos financiados por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Otros se deben a la experiencia de académicos que, desde diversas instancias institucionales, participaron en la gestión de la salud y la enfermedad durante los dos últimos decenios del franquismo y en la transición a la democracia.
Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective
Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin', sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative, nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific programme as well as a cultural and political phenomenon. It examines the commonalities of eugenics in 'Latin' Europe and Latin America. As a program to achieve the social and political goals of modern welfare systems, Latin eugenics strongly influenced the complex relationship of the state to the individual. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources in many languages, this book offers the first history of Latin eugenics in Europe and the Americas.
La medicina ante el nuevo milenio: una perspectiva histórica
El volumen que ahora presentamos se muestra por tanto no sólo como una vía para conocer, con sus aciertos y sus limitaciones, sus virtudes y sus carencias, cuáles son las líneas temáticas y las perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas que se siguen en el momento actual entre quienes cultivan la Historia de la Medicina dentro de nuestras fronteras, sino también, cómo éstos se plantean sus relaciones con otras áreas y disciplinas, qué pueden ofrecer a ellas y qué es lo que esperan que éstas puedan aportar para mejorar la historiografía médica. Primera parte: EL SABER MÉDICO Género y saber médico La adquisición del saber y sus aplicaciones. Saber médico y construcción de la e...
La mediación intercultural en la atención sanitaria a inmigrantes y minorías étnicas
La mediación intercultural en los servicios sanitarios, en tanto en cuanto hace de puente entre culturas y lenguas distintas y, al mismo tiempo, contribuyea crear un entorno de respeto mutuo y de cercanía humana, se ha configurado como un elemento esencial de los servicios asistenciales y de los programas preventivos o de promoción de la salud cuando se atiende a una población que presenta diversidad cultural y social.El libro ofrece una visión internacional de diversos enfoques existentes en lamediación intercultural en la atención sanitaria. Para ello, aglutina aportaciones de cualificados autores de tres continentes, combinando la presentaciónde modelos organizativos para el desar...
