Hospitals and medical specialities

Hospitals and medical specialities

—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...
Biographies: Ludwick Rajchman and Walter Cannon

Biographies: Ludwick Rajchman and Walter Cannon

—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...
Spaces for health action

Spaces for health action

—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 political economy of health

The political economy of health

—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 Asilomar Conference

The Asilomar Conference

—Controversies and interests in a key episode in the history of biology and genetic engineering.—   With the beginning of the 1970s, molecular biology entered a new stage with DNA recombination techniques and, therefore, the emergence of genetic...
King’s College and the structure of DNA

King’s College and the structure of DNA

—The history of a scientific milestone and the invisibility of women in science through the geographies of knowledge.—   One of the key episodes in the development of molecular biology concerns the identification of the structure of DNA. The outcome...