Rasgos fonéticos hallados en unas actas capitulares lucentinas del siglo XVII (1600-1617)

La anatomia española en la primera mitad del siglo XIX

JOHN L. WEST, The Taylors of Lancashire, Manchester, [the author], 1977, 8vo, pp. 134, illus., £1.50 + postage (paperback). (Obtainable from: 11 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Manchester). An excellent account of a remarkable medical family, based on extensive research into manuscript and printed sources. It extended over six or seven generations, from James Taylor (1708/10-1777) of Whitworth to Herbe...

Hipócrates en España (siglo XVI)

El regreso de las epidemias. Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX

extent the approaches to illness and healing have become "disenchanted" during this period or not. The authors have drawn on a broad range of archival sources, medical literature and field studies (as far as the more recent history is concerned). The studies in this volume show that Max Weber's concept of the "disenchantment of the world" may be perfectly applicable to many phenomena, but lack ...

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...

¿Curar el cáncer? Los orígenes de la radioterapia española en el primer tercio del siglo XX

ethical choices-but it raises challenges that have not been fully solved. The result creates an asymmetry. The earlier chapters include accounts of how each of the four main scientists discussed responded to National Socialism and fared under the Nazi stateWertheimer and Goldstein were prominent members of the intellectual migration. The last chapter, however, attempts to examine "wholeness" as...