La confrontación partidista española a propósito de América Latina

Historia de la Oftalmologia Española

Historia de la Oftalmologia Espaniola, by Luis S. GRANJEL, Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, 1964, pp. 150, illus. No price given. Professor Granjel has accorded special attention to the contributions of the Arabic school in Spain and to the analysis of Daza de Valdes's treatise (1623) which is one of the great books on refraction as applied to the human eye. The author must be praised for h...

Telemedicina: Un Desafío Para América Latina.

La telemedicina es una tendencia creciente en la prestación de los servicios médicos. Aunque la eficacia de esta práctica no ha estado bien establecida, es probable que los países en desarrollo compartirán este nuevo paradigma con los desarrollados. Los defensores de la telemedicina en América Latina sostienen que será una herramienta útil para reducir las disparidades y mejorar la accesibilida...

Resumen de la XI Conferencia de la Asociacion Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2005)

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...

El ejercicio medico y otros capitulos de la medicina española

Orient, and to those who wish to link their knowledge of ancient Chinese medicine with that of the present day. The effects of climate on history as a serious study is not as new a subject as is sometimes suggested, but it is now one of the "new ways" in history, popular especially with the French school, the members of which usually publish in the Annales. Robert Claiborne, who is a journalist...