—A fundamental objective of twentieth-century physics was to make subatomic particles go round and round increasingly faster— One of the fundamental tools for research in the field of atomic and nuclear physics is the cyclotron. A cyclotron is a...
—Research to win the war: armed conflict as a stimulus for the development of science and technology.— Since the origins of humankind, war has been one of the main stimuli for the development of science and technology. There is evidence of...
—Definition, characteristics and examples of Big Science.— Historical studies on science, medicine and technology show how scientific and technological activity has been transformed over time. For example, from the second half of the nineteenth...
—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...
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.
