—The development of the health industry and new technologies has had huge consequences in the fight against illness over the twentieth and twentieth first century.— The impact of the health industry and associated health technologies has had an...
—The technological revolution in medicine in the twentieth century.— From the end of the nineteenth century, a series of factors drove a growing process of specialisation within the health professions. The traditional general practitioner, capable...
—Two figures in international health and medical humanitarianism in the years of the Second World War.— The generation of doctors who practised their profession during the interwar period (1914-1945) showed a special sensitivity to the social...
—Changes in healthcare organisation in Spain during the twentieth century and changes in the international arenal.— In the first half of the twentieth century, health organisation in Spain was focused on the prevention of social dominant diseases,...
—The psychological, social and political dimensions of illness.— ‘Health is more than the absence of disease: the word health implies something positive, that is, physical, mental and moral well-being. That is the goal we must reach, even if it goes...
The editorial team
The editorial team of Sabers en acció (@sabersaccio) is made up of research and teaching staff from the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT), as well as many other scholars from other academic institutions and research centres dedicated to the history of science, technology and medicine.
