—A biography to reflect in the importance of hygiene for health.— Until the mid-nineteenth century, one of the main complications after childbirth was called postpartum sepsis or postpartum infection. Once the placenta is detached, the vessels in...
—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the bacteriological laboratory was transformed into a new setting for diagnosing, preventing and treating infectious diseases.— The verification that microscopic living things were the origin of...
—Injuries, functional disorders and the study of other causes of illness were at the centre of the medical revolution of the nineteenth century.— Disease has always been present in human life. The way in which it has been understood, however, has...
—The material culture of science was substantially transformed in the nineteenth century, a process in which the new instrument production industry played a key role.— The material culture of science, in particular scientific instruments, underwent...
—The new context of the nineteenth century created new barriers for women’s access to science. Despite this, their contributions continued to be very relevant in many areas.— One of the texts in which William Whewell defended the new word...
—The periodic table, a product of the collective creativity of science classrooms in the nineteenth century.— The periodic system is one of the most popular icons of contemporary chemistry. It is a classification of the elements that, through...
—A journey through the teaching of experimental science and the training of the elite.— There is no scientific discipline that is valued without, at least, one founding father. Chemistry has two. The father of modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier,...
—Science emerged as a profession in the nineteenth century, at the same time as a structure of disciplines and specialties was took shape.— William Whewell (1794-1866) developed a unique academic career in the first half of the nineteenth century....
—If a global map of the places of the Enlightenment were drawn up, the resulting image would be full of light and dark.— At the end of the eighteenth century, many activities related to science had found spaces for their development, such as private...
—The explosion of air, the decomposition of water and the combustion of fire.— In the years during which the outbreak of the French Revolution was brewing, explosions created in laboratories by experimenters in different European cities were about...
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.
