Ciencia y enfermedad en el siglo XIX
Author: José María López Piñero
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 168
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Bibliography of the History of Medicine
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1482
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Author: Juan José Saldaña
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-06-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0292774753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and colonists introduced European scientific practices to the continent, where they hybridized with local traditions to form the beginnings of a truly Latin American science. As countries achieved their independence in the nineteenth century, they turned to science as a vehicle for modernizing education and forwarding "progress." In the twentieth century, science and technology became as omnipresent in Latin America as in the United States and Europe. Yet despite a history that stretches across five centuries, science in Latin America has traditionally been viewed as derivative of and peripheral to Euro-American science. To correct that mistaken view, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Eleven leading Latin American historians assess the part that science played in Latin American society during the colonial, independence, national, and modern eras, investigating science's role in such areas as natural history, medicine and public health, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politics and nation-building, educational reform, and contemporary academic research. The comparative approach of the essays creates a continent-spanning picture of Latin American science that clearly establishes its autonomous history and its right to be studied within a Latin American context.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Total Pages: 782
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New Methodological Perspectives on Observation and Experimentation in Science
Author: Wenceslao J. González
Publisher: Netbiblo
Published: 2010-12-29
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 8497455304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKObservation and experimentation are central topics of philosophy and methodology of science. The empirical sciences have commonly been associated to observational and experimental processes, because they have been considered crucial for testing the contents of these. Thus, observation and experimentation have received attention from different angles, and they have been historically relevant in the advancement of science. Their philosophical-methodological analysis includes some key aspects those related to axiological, epistemological and methodological issues. New Methodological Perspectives on Observation and Experimentation in Science deals with a classic topic that is seen from new angles. Its nine chapters seek “non-traditional” aspects, trying to extend the boundaries of this philosophical-methodological theme. They are presented in five sections: 1) A Philosophical-Methodological Context; 2) Experience and Scientific Observations; 3) Empirical Support and Experiments in Science; 4) Changes in the Framework on Observation and Experimentation; and 5) Enlarging the Philosophical Scope: Law and Ecology. Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences (AIPS), Visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh) and a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective.” He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru). He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec and Helsinki. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), and Beijing. He has edited 26 volumes on philosophy and methodology of science.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1154
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Author: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0773554084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicolás Fernández-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filosófica, médico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ramón Gómez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernández-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fernández-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebastián Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Ángela Grassi, Julián Sanz del Río, Miguel de Unamuno, and Pío Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.
Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1986-1995: Time periods: 19th and 20th centuries. Book reviews
Author: John Neu
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 764
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Author: Ricardo Quit
Publisher: Palibrio
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1463316348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK... ha generado una interesante expectativa entre los lectores, que buscan una alternativa al racionalismo puro de la ciencia, en forma de un texto más mundano, atractivo y hasta divertido. Desde los títulos que son llamativos por su originalidad, hasta el contenido que en muchas de las ocasiones implica información de primera mano, la columna no solo informa sino llega incluso a generar una inquietud en el lector para continuar informandose más al respecto. Tu intención de generar "toritos" científicos mentales, al ubicar temas polémicos como las tortillas, los extraterrestreso terapias génicas con células madre, hacen interesante la aventura de leer tus textos y eventualmente, sonreir o lanzar una carcajada ante lo lógico y lo absurdo... ... has generated an interesting expectation among readers seeking an alternative to pure rationalism of science in the form of a more worldly, attractive and even funtext. From the titles that are striking for their originality, to the content that in many cases involves first-hand information, the column not only informs but even creates a concern in the reader to continue learning more about it.Your intention to create scientific "toritos" for the mind, by placing controversial issues such as tortillas, alien life forms or stem cell genetherapy, make the reading of your texts to be an interesting adventure and, eventually, to smile or launch a laugh at facing the logical and the absurd... Dr. Miguel Ángel Mendez Rojas Aleph-Zero
