Un litigio indio en el siglo XVI. El códice Cozcatzin

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 ...

¿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...

Escolares medicos en Salamanca (siglo XVI)

systematic presentation of doctrine, the author seeks to pin down a phenomenon which she herself acknowledges is dangerously elusive. Moreover, when she alludes to social Darwinism she relies heavily on the concept of "struggle for existence" or "lutte pour la vie", a term which, as Yvette Conry has shown in her L'introduction du darwinisme en France (Paris, 1974), was conceived of in distinctl...

El Cerebelo En El Autismo

Autism is considered as a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects boys more than girls, in a proportion 4:1 respectively. Autism presents neuroanatomical abnormalities located in the frontal cortex, the amygdala and the cerebellum. Autistic cerebellar postmortem studies have revealed a reduced number of Purkinje cells as well as a reduced Purkinje cell size when compared with non-autistic sub...