Search results for "History of Medicine"
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Critica del riduzionismo e pensiero morfologico. La «Neuronale Ästhetik» di Olaf Breidbach
2015
The proposal of a neuronal aesthetics developed by Olaf Breidbach looks like one of the most advanced points in contemporary morphological thinking and as an extremely challenging effort to redefine the conceptual system of aesthetics; at the same time it is, unfortunately prematurely, the theoretical testament of its author.
Malasanità e/o malpractice. Lettura in chiave bioetica.
2008
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Bibliografía de Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) y de los estudios sobre su vida y su obra
1995
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The role played by doctors, the Government and the who in the implementation of poliomyelitis, measles and rubella serological surveys in Spain (1958…
2020
Serological surveys, which acquired considerable importance in the mid twentieth century, are still a key tool to address infectious diseases. This article, using archival and printed sources from the WHO and the medical and general press, analyses the role of doctors and scientists, government, and the WHO in the implementation of serological surveys to evaluate the situation of poliomyelitis, measles and rubella in Spain and to set up a plan of action against them. The paper shows the role of Florencio Pérez Gallardo and his group at the National School of Health, favoured by the Franco regime to receive the support of WHO collaborative programmes after Spain joined in 1951, and the impac…
La concepción del espacio-tiempo en la cosmología sarvāstivāda
2013
The present article focuses on the reconstruction of the cosmological models from the school of Kashmir (fourth century), as they are registered in the compendium of sarvāstivāda-vaibhāsika school, attributed to the Buddhist monk Vasubandhu and titled Abhidharmakośabhāsya. The articles identifies the different textual sources of the cosmological models and describes its general structure, based in three realms (sensible, subtle matter and immaterial). It analyzes the relevant characteristics of the concepts of Space and Time, discovering and unusual model in comparison with the contemporaries cosmologies from the Mediterranean.
Zolfare di Sicilia: le tematiche della ricerca.
2010
Sicilian zolfare (sulphur mines) have long been one of the economic resourches of the island. Miners have worked in difficult and dangerous conditions: many of themwere young children (carusi). The paper deals with medical and health provisions for zolfara workers.
La lucha por el mantenimiento de un huerto de simples en la universidad de Valencia durante el siglo XVII
2005
This article deepens on the efforts made during the 17th century by Medicine professors and students, Pharmacist Associations as well as surgeons and magistrates from Valencia directed toward the creation and mantenaince of a garden destinated to the growing of medicinal plants from worldwide.
Neurosis y Gastralgia según Juan Bta. Peset y Vidal (1869)
1998
The article consist of two parts. The first is a summary of the treaty in which the main ideas about diseases analysed by the doctor Peset and Vidal are presented. The second part is a comparative analysis of the text for which the author has consulted many books and other material of those days, as well as medical dictionaries. As a result of it, the author presents the "gastralgia" as a digestive neurosis.
El Gran Catharro de 1580 ¿gripe o pertussis?
2005
The gran Catharro (1580) is considered the first influenza epidemic. The analysis of various testimonies of the time may offer some doubts about whether or not it was so; and data strongly support that it was a pertussis epidemic.
The medicalization of suicide in 19th century Spain: theoretical, professional and cultural aspects
2012
This paper analyzes the medicalization process of suicide in Spain during the 19th century. It describes the transition of suicide seen as an act of free will to a model, developed by mental doctors, which considered it a pathological behavior. Against this model, other conservative positions from the fields of Law and Medicine continued to defend the traditional view. The initial interest of mental medicine regarding the social aspects of suicide was developed during this period. The social factor that authors considered to be the most influential to suicide was the loss of religious ideas, which was understandable considering that religion was very present in Spanish science and society t…