José María Castillo y Juan José Tamayo, Iglesia y sociedad en España, Madrid, Editorial Trotta, 2005 (140 páginas, 23 x 15 cm, ISBN 84-8164-766-7)

A Tribute to José María (“Chema”) Cantú

José María ("Chema") Cantú (1938-2007), born in Mexico, was a pioneering, loved and respected leader in medical and human genetics and bioethics in Latin America. He graduated as a physician in Mexico and then trained in medical and human genetics in France and the United States. He was instrumental in developing a first-rate research, training and genetic services program in medical and human ...

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...

José María Borrás Llop (ed.), El trabajo infantil en España (1700-1950) (Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2014), pp. 511, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-475-3797-6; ISBN: 978-84-9888-550-7.Peter Kirby, Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 224, £17.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-18-438-3884-5.

as those on deschi da parto (Italian trays given as birth gifts), or in frescoes of the birth of the Virgin Mary or of John the Baptist. One wonders whether late medieval artists knew of similar ancient Roman scenes, like those included by Berg in nicely presented black and white images. Or is it possible that medieval basins just continued to play crucial yet often overlooked roles in the huma...

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...

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