Research into the historical and social studies of medicine, technology and science. Collective lines and research projects are devoted to both documentary and material sources of science and technology. Contemporary medicine, its knowledge, practices and scenarios; public health, the relations between science, culture and society, the processes of circulation of scientific knowledge, and the processes of production and social use of science, medicine and technology, especially in the Modern and Contemporary Ages are some of the priority and characteristic research areas of the group.
Socio-historical analysis of the relationship between science, medicine, technology and society.
- Contemporary Medicine: Knowledge, Practices and Scenarios
Relations between health, medicine and society in the European and international context: public health, health policies, urban-rural dichotomy, food and nutrition, diseases, campaigns and health professionals.
- Science, technology and society in the Middle Ages and the early modern period
Historical analysis of science in medieval and modern society. Specifically, the degree of penetration, popularisation and influence of medicine, astronomy and natural history in different spheres and social groups.
- Science, technology and society (19th-20th centuries)
Science and its publics, science in the classroom, science, medicine and law, circulation of knowledge, experts, scientific terminology, controversies.
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