—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...
—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...
—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...
—A deconstruction of ‘crucial’ experiments in the history of molecular biology.— In the field of life sciences, the twentieth century is usually characterised as the setting for a process of molecularisation. This process has been explained in...
—The biography of Charles Darwin’s cousin allows ‘uncomfortable’ episodes in the history of biology to be explored.— Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a multifaceted author, a polymatist who wrote on many topics, including meteorology, anthropology,...
—A journey through the origins of biology as a scientific discipline beyond myths and ‘founding fathers’.— Throughout the nineteenth century, there was an entire series of events that hastened the establishment of biology as an academic discipline....
—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the study of microorganisms was transformed into a key discipline for the control and eradication of infectious diseases.— Ideas about the etiology of infectious diseases changed with the evolution of...
—How we learned to take aim in a chemical sense in the history of medicine.— The discovery that specific microorganisms were responsible for infectious diseases led to the search for therapeutic substances to eliminate them. Serotherapy was used, by...
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.
