Geoff Eley: sociedad, política e ideología en la historiografía alemana (1974-1984)

Ciencia e historia: debates y tendencias en la historiografía de la ciencia

This is the fourth in a series of collections under the general editorship of Roland Waast, on the history of western science beyond the West. While concentrating on medical practices and health, it is not simply another volume on "tropical" or "colonial" medicine but a more general survey of the spread of western medicine and its modification in non-western contexts, colonial and post-colonial...

Cell Line: 1974–1984

La doctrina y el laboratorio: fisiología y experimentación en la sociedad española del siglo XIX

Vivian Nutton, in the first chapter, wrote a 43 page essay on the social history of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome that is the best introduction to this vast topic I have seen. Katharine Park's description of medicine and society in medieval Europe, a society more diverse than our own, she claims, tells us about a universe of disease and the various attempts to cope with the effects of suc...

La lutte contre la Fasciolose en Iran

Salud, cultura y sociedad en América Latina

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest in the history of tropical medicine, sparked by a number of academic and political developments. Imperialism is back on the scholarly agenda, leading us to ask how important empire was to science and medicine, and vice versa. Post-colonial studies raise questions about how the colonies were critical to the constitution or genealogy of science an...