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Embriología en la periferia
Al comenzar el siglo XX, la embriología no había encontrado aún su nicho en la universidad española. Embriología en la periferia traza la odisea de la disciplina abriéndose camino en dos escenarios científicos tan diferentes como la II República y la Dictadura franquista. A través de la investigación en más de una decena de archivos nacionales e internacionales, del análisis de las publicaciones de los morfólogos españoles y de la recolección de numerosas fuentes orales, este libro reconstruye las investigaciones embriológicas de ambos períodos y sus contextos sociopolíticos y académicos. A través de sus páginas, Embriología en la periferia muestra cómo la economía de...
Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how 'nature and nurture' shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between 'real' and 'ideal' bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference - date back to the early modern period. Debating Sex and Gender is an innovative study of the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, Vicente traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual's sex. This book brings together insights from the histories of sexuality, medicine and the law to shed new light on this timely and important field of study.
La Facultad de Medicina de Valencia. Cinco siglos de historia
Toda sociedad necesita articularse a partir de instituciones que favorezcan el crecimiento y desarrollo de sus personas, así como su bienestar. Así, las enseñanzas de la medicina como disciplina orientada a la formación en el cuidado de las personas han formado parte del desarrollo de todas las sociedades a lo largo de la historia desde perspectivas formativas basadas en la relación directa entre maestro y aprendiz. “La Facultad de Medicina de València. Cinco siglos de historia”, constituye una recopilación necesaria para analizar y poner en valor las aportaciones que nuestra Facultad de Medicina ha hecho en los diferentes ámbitos de formación, asistencial, de investigación y lo que actualmente denominamos transferencia de conocimiento, pero también de su contribución al desarrollo de nuestra sociedad.
Crafting Science
During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a remarkable transformation. In one short decade, what had long been a set of heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the story Joan Fujimura tells in a rare inside look at the way science works and knowledge is created. A dramatic study of a new species of scientific revolution, this book combines a detailed ethnography of scientific thought, an in-depth account of science practiced and produced, a history of one branch of science as it entered the limelight, and a view of the impact of new genetic technologies on science and society. The scientific ent...
Reproduction
From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.
Innovation in Pharmacy: Advances and Perspectives. September 2018
This book contains the summaries of the "Innovation in Pharmacy: Advances and Perspectives" that took place in Salamanca (Spain) in September 2018. The early science of chemistry and microbiology were the source of most drugs until the revolution of genetic engineering in the mid 1970s. Then biotechnology made available novel protein agents such as interferons, blood factors and monoclonal antibodies that have changed the modern pharmacy. Over the past year, a new pharmacy of oligonucleotides has emerged from the science of gene expression such as RNA splicing and RNA interference. The ability to design therapeutic agents from genomic sequences will transform treatment for many diseases. The...
